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Histories or tales of past times : told by Mother Goose : with morals / written in French by M. Perrault ; and Englished by G. M. Gent.

Accession number
PML 84676
Creator
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Published
Salisbury [Wiltshire] : Printed and sold by B. Collins ; [London] : Also by Carnan and Newbery, in St. Paul's Church-Yard, and S. Crowder, in Pater-noster-Row, London, 1772.
Credit line
Gift; Lilly Library; 1983.
Notes
At foot of t.p.: Price 9d. neatly bound.
Divisional half-title (p. [109]): The discreet princess, or, The adventures of Finetta.
Frontispiece included in pagination; contains title: Mother Goose's tales.
Publisher's advertisement at foot of p. 156.
Translation of: Contes de ma mère l'Oye; this is Robert Samber's translation, first published in 1729. (Cf. Opie, I. & P. Classic fairy tales, p. 24).
Description
156 p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 12 cm
Provenance
From the Elisabeth Ball collection.
Binding
Dutch floral boards.
Classification
Department