Doré's Illustrations for the Fables of La Fontaine

Doré's Illustrations for the Fables of La FontaineAt the age of 16, Gustave Dor was the highest paid illustrator in France. Twenty years later, in 1868, at the peak of his artistic genius, he produced magnificent illustrations for Jean de La Fontaine's witty and high polished Fables poems and timeless tales with charming images of country folk and animal life, as well as heroes from Greek mythology and creatures from fables by Aesop. This collection includes all 84 full page plates plus 39 vignettes

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this anthology ranges from Henry David Thoreau's great nineteenth-century polemics "Civil Disobedience" and "Slavery in Massachusetts" to more recent writings by Aung San Suu Kyi as well as Nadezhda Tolokonnikova of the subversive Russian rock group Pussy Riot

Two pages of examples show just how well these ornaments can embellish modern typography

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Over 160 text figures

Doré illuminated the seventeenth-century setting with a nineteenth-century acquaintance with the scene

The concluding section offers information on archaic usages

and the gradual adoption of antiseptic principles

equations for higher moments and the closure problem

Bayley and architectural expert Henry Hope Reed set Mr