Fables de La Fontaine II
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La Fontaine, Jean de
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1946
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Here is a second copy of this beautiful book. In keeping with my usual procedure, I include second copies of numbered books. This collection already includes the pair of volumes found perhaps at Magers and Quinn in 1995. Now come these two volumes, each for the astounding price of $7.22! As is typical of numbered editions, this second volume does not carry a specific number. In this case, the colophon in the first volume notes that only first volumes are numbered, but the numbering is meant to apply as well to the second volume. As I wrote then, I am surprised to see the French publishing industry able to do a book like this so soon after the war. The aquarelles are unfortunately almost completely devoid of narrative content; they end up often no more than pleasing pictures, I fear. The best of them are those that move into some human content. My favorite aquarelles here include the bed of the man who finds a louse significant matter to pray over (60), the road over the hill as an image for "The Two Doves" (105), the two goats on a bridge (207), and the Scythian overpruning his tree (239).
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La Bonne Compagnie
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11589 (Access ID)