The pleasing companion
Subtitle: a collection of fairy tales, calculated to improve the heart : the whole forming a system of moral precepts and examples, for the conduct of youth through life ... : ornamented with elegant cuts
Series: Eighteenth century collections online
Publisher: Printed for W. Lane, Leadenhall-Street
Published: 1788
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 288
Subjects: Fairy tales
Notes: Some tales are from Marie Catherine La Mothe, Countess d'Aulnoy's Contes des fees.

Signatures: [A]² B-N¹².

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ESTC N12176

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

Bound in half dark green leather and marbled paper-covered boards, marbled endpapers, marbled edges (front board detaching and front free endpaper loose).
Table of contents: title: (from t.p.) Princess Hebe & Anguiletta; title: Graciosa and Percinet; title: Story of Finetta; title: Princess Carpilona; title: Story of the white cat; title: Yellow dwarf; title: Pidgeon and dove; title: Young and handsome.