{"id":24298,"date":"2026-10-27T17:17:30","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/?post_type=product&#038;p=24298"},"modified":"2026-10-27T17:26:30","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T16:26:30","slug":"the-eagle-the-fox-the-fox-the-eagle","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/shop\/art\/themerson_franciszka\/the-eagle-the-fox-the-fox-the-eagle\/","title":{"rendered":"The Eagle &#038; the Fox &#038; The Fox &#038; The Eagle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Aesop, presented and illustrated by Franciszka Themerson. The Eagle &amp; the Fox &amp; The Fox &amp; The Eagle. Two semantically symmetrical versions &amp; a revised application.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>\u00c9DITION ORIGINALE de la seconde publication de Gaberbocchus Press, la derni\u00e8re \u00e0 \u00eatre imprim\u00e9e \u00e0 la main.<br \/>\nL'ouvrage est illustr\u00e9 de 6 compositions \u00e0 pleine page et deux grands ornements (en noir et rouge) par Frannciszka Themerson.<br \/>\n<strong>Tirage limit\u00e9 \u00e0 400 exemplaires num\u00e9rot\u00e9s tous sign\u00e9s par l'artiste<\/strong>, avec un petit autoportrait et la signature factice d'\u00c9sope (\"<em>each bearing the original signature of the artist and the counterfeit signature of Aesop<\/em>\").<\/p>\n<p>Pour cet ouvrage, l'artiste polonaise Franciszka Themerson donne deux illustrations de la fable d'\u00c9sope \"<em>L'aigle et le renard<\/em>\" : tout d'abord dans une traduction ancienne (1722) de Samuel Croxall, puis dans une seconde version inversant les r\u00f4les des personnages, avec une nouvelle \"morale\" pour l'ensemble : \"<em>These two fables are a warning to us not to deal hardly or injuriously by somebody who can defend himself by dealing hardly or injuriously by us. There are many less subtle and imperious creatures which we can eat in peace, and to the Glory of God<\/em>.\"<\/p>\n<p>Franciszka Themerson emm\u00e9nage \u00e0 Paris son \u00e9poux Stefan (\u00e9crivain) en 1938. Ils gagnent Londres lors de la Seconde guerre mondiale et y fondent en 1948 la maison Gaberbocchus (version latinis\u00e9e de \"Jabberwocky\"), qui publie les po\u00e8tes de l'avant-garde britannique ainsi que les premi\u00e8res traductions fran\u00e7aises de Jarry, Queneau... Gaberbocchus donne une soixantaine d'ouvrages puis est reprise en \u00a01979 par Uitgeverij De Harmonie (Amsterdam).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FIRST EDITION<br \/>\nSIGN\u00c9 PAR L&rsquo;ARTISTE<br \/>\nTIRAGE \u00c0 400 EX.<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":25192,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"boutique":[198],"cat_gallery":[],"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[32],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-24298","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","theme-lettres","artistes-themerson_franciszka","boutique-librairie","catalogue-varia-fevrier-2026","editeur-gaberbocchus-press","product_cat-livres-illustres","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product\/24298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/product"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"boutique","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/boutique?post=24298"},{"taxonomy":"cat_gallery","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/cat_gallery?post=24298"},{"taxonomy":"product_brand","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_brand?post=24298"},{"taxonomy":"product_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_cat?post=24298"},{"taxonomy":"product_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librairie-le-pas-sage.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/product_tag?post=24298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}