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Ruelle Album

1950? Quelques amis de La Fontaine.  Paperbound.  Ruelle Chocolate.  €100 from Albert van den Bosch, Antwerp, July, '23.

I have fallen in love with this landscape formatted booklet.  It is an album completely filled with Ruelle chocolate slips.  Each of the 24 pages offers five illustrations for a single fable.  They are quite playful and creative!  Some of my favorites include the exploded frog; the wolf's challenging fist after the crane has removed the bone from his throat; the owl's view of the bones that were his children; the rat captured in the oyster.  I could go on.  It is a rare treasure.  I had previously put together a random sampling of ten of these cards.  How nice to get all 120!  11¾" x 8".  I am happy to present them all here!

 

 

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