Les Contes Des Fees, ou Les Enchantemens, des Bonnes et Mauvaises.
by Madame D' Aulnoy, (Marie Catherine de la Mothe, Comtesse d')
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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GRASS VALLEY, California, United States
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About This Item
Pairs: Chez Billois. Very Good. 1810. Nouvelle Edition. Hardcover. WITHOUT the 28 plates called for in the edition. It doesn't appear that they were ever bound in. 5 vols; 24mo; full polished calf; spines lettered, with elaborate decoration in gilt; 2 green, 1 brown leather spine labels; green ribbon markers; marbled endpapers. Leading corners volume one with wear through to boards at corner tips; volume 5 light rubbing with a hint of cracking to top half inch of front joint, and a faint dampstain lower leading margins pps. 37-60; small gap of worming foot of spine volume 2. Still overall a clean, tight, and attractive little set. TEXT IN FRENCH. D'Aunoy was known for her literary fairy tales told in the conversational manner of the salon. First published in 1697, she called her works contes des fees (fairy tales), which generally became the term used for the genre. .
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- Bookseller
- G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 10145
- Title
- Les Contes Des Fees, ou Les Enchantemens, des Bonnes et Mauvaises.
- Author
- Madame D' Aulnoy, (Marie Catherine de la Mothe, Comtesse d')
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Edition
- Nouvelle Edition
- Publisher
- Chez Billois
- Place of Publication
- Pairs
- Date Published
- 1810
- Keywords
- FAIRY, TALES, FICTION, FRENCH, LANGUAGE
- Bookseller catalogs
- Literature;
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G. F. Wilkinson Books, member IOBA
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GRASS VALLEY, California
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