Histoires ou contes du temps passé
Subtitle: avec des moralitez
Edition: Second edition].
Publisher: Chez Claude Barbin, sur le Second peron de la Sainte-Chapelle, au palais
Published: 1697
Place of publication: A Paris
Language: fre
Number of pages: 229
Subjects: Fairy tales
Notes: Added engraved title page with title " Contés de ma mere l'oye" engraved by Clouzier.

Barbin printed two editions in 1697; the first includes an errata leaf with 8 corrections, all of which were corrected in the second edition. Portions of text have been reset for this edition: last line of page 5 ends "le mal que" ("le mal" in 1st edition); page 31, last line ends "& le second" ("& le second un" in 1st edition). Consult Reed, G.E. Claude Barbin, libraire de Paris sous le règne de Louis XIV, page 45.

Signatures: ã⁴ A-S⁸·⁴ T⁸.

Engraved headpieces for dedication and beginning of each tale.

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire et de l’amateur de livres (5e éd.), volume 4, column 50

Gift of Peter J. Solomon, 2019.

Crossed out, illegible former owner's signature dated: an 1699.

Manuscript shelf mark on front pastedown: B VII.I.

Bound in contemporary French mottled calf; gilt decoration on spine and gilt tooled leather spine label with title: Contes du t. passez; in brown morocco slipcase; in CMI case.
Table of contents: title: La belle au bois dormant --; title: Le petit chaperon rouge --; title: Le Barbe bleuë --; title: Le maistre chat, ou, Le chate botté --; title: Les fées--; title: Cendrillon, ou, La petite pantoufle de verre --; title: Riquet a la Houppe --; title: Le petit Poucet.