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Charles PERRAULT & (Jeanne-Marie LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT) & (Marie-Jeanne L'HERITIER DE VILLANDON) Histoires ou contes du temps passé ; avec moralités

Charles PERRAULT & (Jeanne-Marie LEPRINCE DE BEAUMONT) & (Marie-Jeanne L'HERITIER DE VILLANDON)

Histoires ou contes du temps passé ; avec moralités

Chez Bassompierre, libraire & imprimeur, A La Haye, et se trouve à , à La Haye et se trouve à Liège 1777, in-8 (11,6x17,3cm), un volume relié.


Charming edition illustrated with a frontispiece, a framed title and 9 half-page illustrations, reproducing vignettes by Fokke after De Sève - with the final illustration for L'Adroite Princesse, newly added. 
Complete with the Épître dédicatoire by P. Darmancour [Charles Perrault] to 'La Grande Mademoiselle', Anne-Marie d'Orléans, cousin of Louis XIV.
Half-sheep binding, smooth spine ruled in gilt, and a diagonally stamped gilt title. Beige paper boards, speckled edges. Small paper defect in the margin of page 75, scattered foxing, a small brown stain affecting the illustration of Cinderella. A name written in ink in the lower margin of page 21.
 
This edition contains eight famous tales by Perrault: Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Les Fées (The Fairies), La Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard), La Belle au bois dormant (Sleeping Beauty), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Riquet à la Houppe (Ricky of the Tuft), and Le Petit Poucet (Hop-o'-My-Thumb), as well as The Clever Princess or Finette by his niece Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon, wrongly attributed to Perrault. The collection ends with La Veuve et ses deux filles, by Marie Leprince de Beaumont.
 
Cohen 789; Brunet Supplément, II, 206 ;
Provenance: Henry Betrand library, blind stamp on verso of frontispiece.

4 500 €

Réf : 86384

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