Lot 107
Perrault (Charles) Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, ninth edition, woodcuts, Salisbury, 1783 & others, fairy tales (7)
Hammer Price: £550
Description
[Perrault (Charles)] Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, ninth edition, lacking A1 & 6 (frontispiece and pp.11/12), 7 woodcut chapter headings only (of 8, lacking that to 'The Fairy'), contemporary ink inscription to head of title, light browning, stab-hole to a few leaves, becoming loose, original "Dutch" floral boards, rubbed, lacking backstrip, Salisbury, Collins and Johnson...S.Crowder, 1783 § [Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine d')] The History of the Tales of the Fairies, 7 woodcut illustrations, a little soiled and stained, title frayed and lacking portion from inner margin, D2 torn without loss and D12 (final leaf) defective at lower outer corner with loss to final two lines, embossed stamp to final leaf, stitched in old boards ready for binding in leather, for C. and R.Ware..., 1769 § Famous History of Tom Thumb (The). Wherein is declared, his Marvellous Acts of Manhood...Performed after his First Return from Fairy-land, Parts II & III only (of 3), each with 24pp., titles with large woodcut, Part II with 8 woodcut illustrations and Part III with 12, lightly browned, original printed pictorial wrappers, a little soiled and stained, Printed for the Booksellers, [?1780] § [Peacock (Lucy)] The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon, in their Travels to the Temple of Virtue..., first edition, signed by the author on final leaf, lacking half-title and pp.ix-xxiv of preliminaries, stab-holes, some damp- or water-staining, no endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, for the Author, by T.Bensley, 1785 § History of Valentine and Orson (The), 16pp., single folded sheet, woodcut title-vignette, browned, [Nottingham], Printed [by Charles Sutton] for the Company of Walking Stationers, [?1790]; and another later fairy tale, v.s. (7)
⁂ The first two are translated from the French, the fourth is an adaptation for children of Spenser's Fairy Queene. ESTC lists only one copy of each of the first and fourth items (both Oxford Bodleian Library).
Description
[Perrault (Charles)] Histories or Tales of Past Times, told by Mother Goose, ninth edition, lacking A1 & 6 (frontispiece and pp.11/12), 7 woodcut chapter headings only (of 8, lacking that to 'The Fairy'), contemporary ink inscription to head of title, light browning, stab-hole to a few leaves, becoming loose, original "Dutch" floral boards, rubbed, lacking backstrip, Salisbury, Collins and Johnson...S.Crowder, 1783 § [Aulnoy (Marie-Catherine d')] The History of the Tales of the Fairies, 7 woodcut illustrations, a little soiled and stained, title frayed and lacking portion from inner margin, D2 torn without loss and D12 (final leaf) defective at lower outer corner with loss to final two lines, embossed stamp to final leaf, stitched in old boards ready for binding in leather, for C. and R.Ware..., 1769 § Famous History of Tom Thumb (The). Wherein is declared, his Marvellous Acts of Manhood...Performed after his First Return from Fairy-land, Parts II & III only (of 3), each with 24pp., titles with large woodcut, Part II with 8 woodcut illustrations and Part III with 12, lightly browned, original printed pictorial wrappers, a little soiled and stained, Printed for the Booksellers, [?1780] § [Peacock (Lucy)] The Adventures of the Six Princesses of Babylon, in their Travels to the Temple of Virtue..., first edition, signed by the author on final leaf, lacking half-title and pp.ix-xxiv of preliminaries, stab-holes, some damp- or water-staining, no endpapers, contemporary marbled boards, lacking backstrip, for the Author, by T.Bensley, 1785 § History of Valentine and Orson (The), 16pp., single folded sheet, woodcut title-vignette, browned, [Nottingham], Printed [by Charles Sutton] for the Company of Walking Stationers, [?1790]; and another later fairy tale, v.s. (7)
⁂ The first two are translated from the French, the fourth is an adaptation for children of Spenser's Fairy Queene. ESTC lists only one copy of each of the first and fourth items (both Oxford Bodleian Library).