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Charles PERRAULT Contes des fées

PERRAULT : Contes des fées - First edition - Edition-Originale.com

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Charles PERRAULT

Antoine CLOUZIER

Contes des fées

Chez Saintin, 6 rue de l'Eperon, Paris s.d. (circa 1810), 8,9x13,8cm, [2],166p., [9 pl.], relié.

Fairies tales

Very elegant edition of Perrault's fairy tales, printed with the stereotype process invented by Louis-Etienne Herhan.
Illustrated with 5 full-text engravings (2 vignettes each) and a vignette on the engraved title, after the frontispiece by Antoine Clouzier for the first edition of Perrault's tales (Paris, Barbin, 1697).
Full roan binding, smooth spine framed in gilt and gilt motifs, black title label stamped in gilt, boards framed in gilt, inner dentelle, endpapers and pastedowns in caillouté paper, all edges gilt. Joints slightly split at head of spine, a small brown stain to title page and frontispiece, some spotting.
Very rare edition, including Bluebeard, Little Red Riding Hood, The Fairy, Sleeping Beauty, Puss in Boots, Cinderella, Riquet with the Tuft, Little Thumb, The Clever Princess, Donkey-skin, The Ridiculous Wishes.
A very scarce item, OCLC does not locate any copy printed by Saintin at this address.