Fables de Florian, 1880

File — Box: CFC Trade Cards Box 4

Identifier: CFC2018.0445

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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

1880

Extent

14 Cards : 7 cards depicting fables of Florian, including a text of very small print in two columns at the top of the back of the card and a simple colored picture on the front ; 4 3/8" x 3 1/8".

Language of Materials

French

Additional Description

Abstract

The first six from Clignancourt are cropped. At present I have full versions of all seven cards except "Le Lion et le Léopard," for which my only examplar is cropped. How wonderful to have something from an institution like "Aux Deux Magots" right at St. Germain des Pres! The colors are strong and the animals well dressed. Most humans would need a magnifying glass to read these fable texts! They were kept deliberately small, one suspects, to make room for the advertiser's information. "La Guenon, le Singe et la Noix" may have the strongest illustration of the lot. The printer for both LP and ER is "Publicité Roussette, 65 Faub. St. Denis, Paris, while the printer for AQF and ADM is "Ass. d'Ouv. lith., Romanet et Cie, 27bis, r. Corbeau. While some cards have only the image on one side and the text of the fable with its title on the other, the other cards represent several advertisers.

Le Boeuf, le Cheval et l'Ane (plain, ER)

Le Chat et la Lunette (AQF, ER)

La Fable et la Verité (AQF)

La Guenon, le Singe et la Noix (AQF, ADM, LP)

Le Lion et le Léopard (ER)

Le Troupeau de Colas (AQF, ADM, ER)

Le Sanglier et le Rossignol (plain, ER)

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Most recently, 6 full-sized cards for 60 Francs each from Annick Tilly at the Clignancourt flea market, August, '99. The other "Aux Deux Magots" card cost $4 from Clipper Cargo at the Sacramento Paper Show, Dec., '96. Six other cards, cropped, cost 140 francs at the Clignancourt flea market, Paris, May, '97.