Contes du tems passé de ma mere l'oye
Subtitle: Avec des morales
By: Par M. Perrault. ; Augmentée d'une nouvelle, viz. L'Adroite princesse
Edition: Septieme edition, avec des jolies estampes.
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 23900
Publisher: Imprimé pour J. Rivington, libraire.
Published: 1795
Place of publication: New-York
Language: fre; eng
Format: [microform] :
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Fairy tales
Other titles: Tales of passed times by Mother Goose.
Work titles: Contes des fées
Notes: English and French on facing pages. English t.p. reads: Tales of passed times by Mother Goose. With morals. Written in French by M. Perrault, and Englished by R.S. gent. To which is added a new one, viz. The discreet princess. The seventh edition, corrected, and adorned with fine cuts. New-York: Printed for J. Rivington, bookseller and stationer, no. 56, Pearl-Street. 1795.

Evans identifies "R.S." as Robert Samber.

Signatures: [A]⁶ B-T⁶ ([A]1 recto, T6 verso blank).

Plates engraved by Alexander Anderson. Some copies may have been issued without plates.

"L'Adroite princesse; ou Les avantures de Finette. Nouvelle. Imprimé l'an M.DCC.XCV."--p. [150]-227, with separate title pages in French and English. Attributed to Marie Jeanne L'Héritier de Villandon in NUC pre-56. English t.p. reads: The discreet princess; or The adventures of Finetta. A novel. Printed in the year M.DCC.LXIV [i.e., 1795].

Evans 23900

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 985.2