Fables Choisies de J.-P. Claris de Florian, Premiere & Deuxième Série

Abstract

Bodemann 375.2. These two volumes bound together seem to belong to this second listing of Bodemann's (and not to 375.1) because the size fits (20 x 15 cm.), but not all of her description seems to fit. This is another crepe-paper (or rice-paper?) edition, like that which I have of Barboutau's 1894 La Fontaine. Notice that Flammarion has yielded to Marpon & Flammarion. I also have a second copy of this edition in two unbound volumes. I will list them separately. This copy has better runs of the art than those. Particularly excellent are the illustrations for: L'Aveugle et le Paralytique; Le Grillon; Le Phénix; Le Rossignol et le Prince; Le Sanglier et les Rossignols; Les deux Paysans et le Nuage; Le Paon, les deux Oisons et le Plongeon; Le Lapin et la Sarcelle; La Guenon, le Singe et la Noix; Les deux Voyageurs; and Les deux Chauves. This book has a beautifully tooled leather cover featuring flowers of various colors. This edition is not numbered, though both inside front-covers speak of a limited edition of 200 copies on Japanese Ho-sho paper.