Dust-jacket representing Jean de La Fontaine, 1930

Item — Box: CFC Printed Materials Box 3

Identifier: CFC2021.0229.1

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Collection:

The Carlson Fable Collection is a gathering of primary fable materials at Reinert Alumni Memorial Library at Creighton University. It grew out of the personal collection of fable materials gathered by Rev. Gregory Carlson, S.J. and was given to the Creighton Libraries in 1996. There are more than 10,000 books and approximately 8,000 artifacts in the collection.

From plates to stamps, from cards to whiskey decanters, from toys to posters, you'll find just about anything you can imagine here. Please explore all that is to offer here in my fables Catalogue of Objects.

This is the largest online catalog of fable related objects on the internet. Many are from Aesop's Fables but you will find La Fontaine, Velazquez and Krylov also represented in this collection.

Dates

1930

Extent

1 Sheets : Dust-jacket representing Jean de La Fontaine and advertising Blédine Blécao, apparently available at "Les Ets Jacquemaire a Villefrance (Rhône)."

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

Characters from some of La Fontaine's most famous fables are arranged under his portrait. The back of the dust-jacket quotes his promythium to TH: "Running solves nothing. You need to depart on time." The inside flap encourages babies to ask "Maman" to make sure that this is a "bébé BLÉDINE."