Phosphatine Florian Monochrome, 1910

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 3

Identifier: CFC2018.0419

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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

1910

Extent

12 Cards : Twelve 7½" x 5¼" cards engraved by Devambez in Paris, picturing and presenting Florian's fables but not in full color, as in an otherwise almost identical set, but rather in monochrome. "Édité par la Phosphatine Falières."

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The pictures used are identical with those used in the colored set, and the same texts and printer's designs are also used, but the setup of each card, front and verso, is slightly different. These cards are not numbered as are those in the colored series. What a curious repetition! And how strange that I have not come across it until now! Each verso contains its fable text bordered on three sides by a floral display.

Young Chicken & Old Fox

Two Cats

Two Travelers

Fable & Truth

Cicada

Clothes of Harlequin

The Blind & the Lame

Monkeys and Leopard

Old Tree & Gardener

Ass and Flute

Tightrope Walker

House of Cards

Child and Mirror

Colas' Flock

Coquette and Bee

Mother, Child, Kangaroos

Pasha and Dervish

Peasant and River