L' Histoire de Melusine ....
Contributors: Oudot family.
Edition: 'Nouvellement imprimée'.
Publisher: Chez Jacques Oudot, Imprimeur & Marchand Libraire ruë du Temple
Published: 1699
Place of publication: A Troyes
Language: fre
Number of pages: 136
Work titles: Mélusine.
Notes: With numerous errors in paging.

Woodcuts on pages 11, 14, 16, 28, 33, 35, 36 (duplicate of cut, p. 33), 40 (duplicate of cut, p. 11), 42, 43, 44 (duplicate of cut, p. 35), 47 (duplicate of cut, p. 14), 64,  67 (duplicate of cut, p. 64), 71, 72, (as on Valentin et Orson t-p),80, 83, 86,87, 95, 99 (duplicate of cut on t-p and 72), 103 (duplicate of cut, p. 83), 106, '97' [i.e. 107], 100, 104, 116, 110 (duplicate of cut, p. 97), 110 (duplicate of cut, p. 116), 121 (duplicate of cut pages 35, 44), 126, (duplicate of cut pages 33, 36), 129,(smaller version of t-p cut), and 133.

Brewer thus describes Melusina, or Mélisande: 'The most famous of all the fées of French romance, looked upon by the houses of Lusignan, Rohan, Luxembourg, and Sassenaye as their ancestor and founder. Having enclosed her father in a high mountain for offending her mother, she was condemned to become every Saturday a serpent from her waist downward. She married Raymond, count of Lusignan, and made her husband vow never to visit her on a Saturday; but the count hid himself on one of the forbidden days, andsaw his wife's transformation. Melusina was now obliged to quit her husband, and was destined to wander about as a spectre till the day of doom, though some say that the count immured her in the dungeon of his castle'.

Large woodcut on title-page.

Goldsmith J[132] [var], with: Troyes, Jacques Oudot [1690 ?]; 1699 ed. unrecorded.