Fables de Jean de La Fontaine
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de La Fontaine, Jean
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2001
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I have been in love with Lefebvre's work since his two volumes of La Fontaine's fables done for Casterman in 1986. When I saw this work almost twenty years later, I presumed that it was a reprint in different format of the same illustrations. Now I have found three different editions of his more recent work, all done by La Renaissance du Livre. Each is different in size and format. This seems to be second in chronological order and thus to be based on the large paperback edition. This edition contains some thirty-three of the fifty-one fables presented there, listed here on a beginning T of C and a closing AI. The back-cover speaks of a soixantaine de fables; apparently someone was not checking things out before they got printed! There is no division here by La Fontaine's twelve books. This book has an unusual format: 4¾ x 9¼ and thus the pictures are reduced from their size in that large-format book. Indeed some pictures seem to be reduced in width proportionally: TB on 95 provides an example of this horizontal-but-not-vertical compression. The third edition is a hardbound edition of 2003. That edition tends to separate text and image pages; surprisingly it drops some second images for fables that have two images in both other editions. Among the strongest presentations here are WL (20, 23); FS (28, 31); The Lion in Love (62); The Eagle and the Owl (90, 94); and TT (120, 123). As I mention a propos of the other two editions, the new identifying mark is the presence of a kind of colored confetti around an animal that is experiencing something strong, like having been kicked in the head (85, 87)! There is a simple name and drawing on the upper left of the pre-title-page.
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La Renaissance du Livre
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