Histoires ou contes du temps passé
Les Contes de Perrault : a very rare and precious 18th century edition.
An attractive copy preserved in its contemporary binding.
Amsterdam, 1742.
12mo of (4) ll., 184 pp.
Contemporay granite patterned-calf, ribbed spine decorated with gilt fillets and gilt fleurons, red morocco lettering piece, decorated leading edges, gilt edges, inner margin of the frontispiece repaired without any loss.
142 x 81 mm.
Perrault, Charles. Histoires ou contes du tems passé avec des moralités ; par M. Perrault. Nouvelle édition augmentée d’une nouvelle, à la fin.
Suivant la copie de Paris. Amsterdam, Jacques Desbordes, 1742.
A very rare 18th century edition of Perrault Contes.
Osborne, p. 609.
Brunet and M.-F. Storer didn’t know it.
It’s illustrated with a frontispiece and 8 engravings illustrating the 8 contes : Le petit chaperon rouge ; Les fées ; La barbe bleue ; la Belle au bois dormant ; Le maître chat ou le chat botté ; Cendrillon ou la petite pantoufle de verre ; Riquet à la Houpe ; Le petit poucet ; the 9th conte, l’Adroite princesse, (Mlle l’Héritier) is not illustrated.
« The book was an immediate sucess. Perrault was considered in the Cabinet des Fées (1781) as the creator of fairytales » (Marc Soriano, En français dans le texte).
The number of studies and commentaries, of its republications, illustrations or film adaptations testify of a permanent success and a very large audience which put this work among the most important texts of universal literature.
A precious copy preserved in its contemporary binding.
