Contes de Perrault

This illustrated edition originally appeared from Curmer but the frontispieces of each tale were only printed in black whereas they have been printed in bistre in this edition. The text of the tales is entirely engraved in italics and superbly printed on strong laid paper. The illustrations in the text are finely engraved on steel, they are due to the imagination of Pauquet, Marvy, Jeanron, Jacque, Beaucé, Jules Compagnon, and engraved by Monin.
The 15-page notice on the life and works of Perrault by Paul Jacob appeared for the first time in the 1836 edition, the same is true for the dissertation in fine on fairy tales.
One general title in bistre and 9 frontispieces in bistre; each page of each tale entirely engraved with text and composition framing the text or as headpieces, tailpieces...
Publisher's binding in half dark green shagreen. Spine with false raised bands richly decorated with ornate compartments. All edges gilt. White glazed watered paper for the endpapers. Signs of rubbing. 2 frontispieces partly detached. Some small scattered foxing on paper that is quite white with full margins. A handsome copy.
"It is one of the most beautiful illustrated books of the 19th century and perhaps the rarest in fine condition..." Carteret (Le trésor du bibliophile romantique et moderne). This edition is very rare and is encountered only very infrequently, just like the one published by Curmer, it found itself, as Carteret affirms, in the hands of children with little bibliophilic sense.