Details

Subject(s)

• Mother Goose—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Mother Goose—Juvenile literature [Browse]

Printer

• Desbordes, Jacques, 1704-1742 [Browse]

Illustrator

• Clouzier, Antoine [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Fiction [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Fairy tales [Browse]

Notes

• 2nd edition, 1st state, published in the same year as the original edition by Claude Barbin. (Lacks woodcut tail-piece on page 60, index on page [176] specifies "pag." before page numbers for tales 4, 5, and 8 (e.g. "pag. 63"), title page attribution to Perrailt's son set in 3 lines, with line break after "Per-" and "Fran-").
• Perrault spelled "Perreault" on title page.
• "Suivant la copie, à Paris" --Title page
• An armillary sphere device on title page, attributed to Desbordes (cf. Morgan Library copy).
• Pagination error, "03" for 30 (as also noted in Morgan Library copy).
• Signatures: pi⁴ A-G¹² H⁴.
• Chain lines in first and last sig. vertical, others horizontal.
• Illustrations: Engraved frontispiece (on recto), captioned "Contes de ma Mere Loye," and 8 half-page plates, one at the head of each tale; woodcut head- and tailpieces.

Bibliographic references

Includes index on page [176].

Binding note

Contemporary full dark brown speckled sheep, panelled spine with gilt floral pattern.

Contents

• La belle au bois dormant
• Le petit chaperon rouge
• La barbe bleüe
• Le Maistre Chat, ou, Le Chat Botté
• Les Fées
• Cendrillon, ou, La petite pantoufle de verre
• Riquet à la Houppe
• Le petit Pouçet.

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Place name(s)

Netherlands Amsterdam

Other title(s)

• Contes du temps passé
• Contes de ma mere loye

OCLC

63087492

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