La Vie et les Fables d'Esope le Phrygien, Tome 1
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Chambry, Émile
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1995
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When I first noticed this impressive volume available on ABE, I was surprised that I had not known of it before. The highly limited edition may provide some of the reason for that. It is of course also the unusual French edition of Aesop rather than La Fontaine. The first two volumes present Émile Chambry's 358 fables, apparently verbatim. It is surprising that there is no mention of this source that I can find in this careful work. There is then a heavier portfolio of all the illustrations, including two colored illustrations for the "Life of Aesop" not found in the presentation of La Fontaine's life of Aesop in the first portfolio. There is also a signed original of WL. This copy #100 is also dedicated in pencil on the "Justification du tirage" second page: "A Chantal amical salud de Roger Brunet." Brunet seems best known as a widespread and lively illustrator of Bandes Dessinées. The illustrations, whether in black-and-white or color, are big, splashy, vivacious. The title-page's offers a vivid melange of fable images with Aesop's not pretty face, which is also embossed in the cover of each of the three portfolio boxes. I will try to limit myself here to a selection of some of the most vivid and impressive of these illustrations. My favorites here are "Halcyon" (71); "The Two Men Disputing Their Gods" (91); "The Man and His Two Mistresses" (100); "The Weasel and the File" (132); "The Woman and the Drunken Husband" (147); "The Camel Who Defecated in a River" (212); and "The Terrible Guitar Player" (225). Almost 9½" x 12½".
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Éditions du Grésivaudan
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