Fables

Abstract

A beautiful book, with about a dozen illustrations each for six fables: Le Rat de ville et le Rat des champs, Le Renard et la Cigogne, La Cigale et la Fourmi, Le Loup et l'Agneau, Le Corbeau et le Renard, and Le Héron. The full LaFontaine text comes out a few lines at a time. I had loved the few illustrations that Whitman's Fontaine's Fables does in color. I love this book even more because it does them all in color. A lovely facsimile that Hachette did from one of the books in its own archives.