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The diverting works of the Countess d'Anois : author of the Ladies travel to Spain : containing : I. The memoirs of her own life : II. All her Spanish novels and histories : III. Her letters : IV. Tales of the fairies in three parts compleat. Newly done into English.

Accession number
PML 86266
Creator
Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705.
Published
London : Printed for John Nicholson ... John Sprint ... Andrew Bell and for Samuel Burows, 1707.
Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Endowment Fund, 1999.
Notes
Errors in pagination: numbers 201-24 repeated; 301-68 omitted.
Collation: [A]² B-P⁸ [missigning: D for E1, F4 for F3, N2 for M2, N4 for M4, P3 for P4]; second P-U⁸ [missigned: V3 for U3], X²; Aa-Rr⁸ Ss⁴.
Multiple errors in signing gatherings indicates printer's difficulty in casting off.
First edition in English.
First edition in English of any of Mme. d'Aulnoy's works and the earliest surviving translation into English of any of the French fairy tales.
Description
iv, 224, 201-300, 369-648 p. ; 20 cm
Provenance
Arthur Price, 1757 (insc. on t.p.).
Binding
Sprinkled calf.
Classification
Department