Jean de la Fontaine: Fables III
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Authors
Bouffay, Gabrielle
La Fontaine, Jean de
Issue Date
1962
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Book, Whole
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This volume contains Book XII and the last few of La Fontaine's fables. Bouffay's style is like nothing I have seen before. It is entirely in black-and-white. The illustrations, all full-page, present a character rather than a group of characters or a fable scene. Each portrait consists entirely of fluid india-ink lines. Some of them are quite broad and strong. Others are more a wave of small dots. The effect is slightly psychodelic and often quite imposing. This volume breaks the pattern of an illustration only at the start of each new book and each section. In this short volume the illustrations present a fox (?); a strong goat (that can be seen frontally or laterally, in Picasso-like style); an eagle; a porcupine; an elephant; a pained human face (?); a Satanic face; and a gentle human face. The T of C here covers all three volumes. This work was reserved to the Circle of Bibliophile Professors of France. It is recorded in neither Bassy nor Bodemann. Only the first of the three volumes is numbered, although the appropriate colophon appears at the end of each volume. In the other volumes, it tells the reader, among other things, to look in Volume I for the number.
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Roissard