[SENETERRE, Henri-Charles de].
Nouveaux contes de fées.
"Amsterdam" [= Paris], aux dépens de la Compagnie, 1745. 8vo. With a large engraved allegorical vignette on the title page, the title is printed in red and black, 6 fine engraved illustrations at the head of each tale, and with one woodcut decorated initial at the start of the first tale. Late 18th- or early 19th-century gold-tooled beige calf with red and black labels lettered in gold on the spine, gold-tooled board edges and turn-ins, gilt edges, marbled endpapers. Bound by René Simier (1772-1843), with his stamp in the upper outer corner of the verso of the first flyleaf. XVI, 79, [1 blank] pp.
€ 1,650
Charming collection of six fairy tales, each one illustrated by an elegant engraving in the style of Cochin. The little book is dedicated to Madame la Marquise de L***, and in the dedication the anonymous author prepares his reader for the happy and dreamlike feeling necessary to enter the land of the fairies. The title at the head of the text reads: "Petits contes de fées", and the fairy tales are called respectively: "L'anana", "Le jonc", "La courtepointe", "L'Épaigneul", "Les statues animées", and "Le lit de gazon".
The first edition had been published at Paris, with the same fake address, in 1744. The present is the second edition, to which an extra vignette on title was added. The book is ascribed to Henri-Charles de Senneterre (1714-1785).
Slight foxing and browning throughout. Otherwise in very good condition. Cohen de Ricci 950; not in Gumuchian.
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