[Aulnoy, Marie Catherine de la Mothe, Comtesse d']

12mo (5 5/8 x 3 1/4 in.; 142 x 82 mm). Seven woodcut text illustrations; lower outer corner of leaf A3 torn without loss. Contemporary blindruled leather; extremities worn, lower joint cracked.

lower outer corner of leaf A3 torn without loss. Contemporary blindruled leather; extremities worn, lower joint cracked.
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The first English abridgement of Mme d'Aulnoy's fairy tales, originally published in 1716. The earliest editions contained only a pictorial frontispiece; for this new edition the frontispiece has been replaced with separate woodcuts for each tale.

The seven tales were selected from nine stories printed in 1697 as Contes des Fées: four of these had previously appeared in English in 1699 (no copy known) with the balance first translated as part of the authors collected works in 1707.