• Histoires, ou Contes du temps passé : avec des moralitez / par le fils de Monsieur Perreault

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Language:
  • French
Call number:
  • Euro 18 25130
Extent:
  • 6 unnumbered pages, 175 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 1 engraved plate : illustrations (engravings, woodcuts) ; 14 cm (12mo)
Format:
  • Book
Type:
  • Fairy tales
  • Early works to 1800
  • Juvenile literature
Description:
  • 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.
Publisher:
  • [Amsterdam] : [Jacques Desbordes], M.DC.XCVII [1697]
Subject:
  • Mother Goose—Early works to 1800
  • Mother Goose—Juvenile literature
  • Fairy tales—1697
Title sort:
  • Histoires, ou Contes du temps passé : avec des moralitez / par le fils de Monsieur Perreault.
Alternative:
  • Contes du temps passé
  • Contes de ma mere loye
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.
Created:
  • 1697-01-01T00:00:00Z
Date:
  • 1697
Identifier:
  • ark:/88435/dj52wc85g
Location:
  • CTSN Euro 18 25130
Edm rights:
  • No Known Copyright
Range label:
  • Logical
Printer:
  • Desbordes, Jacques, 1704-1742
Creator:
  • Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703
Binding note:
  • Contemporary full dark brown speckled sheep, panelled spine with gilt floral pattern.
Illustrator:
  • Clouzier, Antoine
Compiler:
  • Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703