Item #22093 Nouveaux Contes de Fées pour les Petits Enfants. Mme la Comtesse de Ségur, Sophie Rostopchine.
Nouveaux Contes de Fées pour les Petits Enfants.
Nouveaux Contes de Fées pour les Petits Enfants.
Nouveaux Contes de Fées pour les Petits Enfants.
/Gustave Doré and Jules Didier, illustrators.

Nouveaux Contes de Fées pour les Petits Enfants.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie 79 Boulevard Saint-Germain, Bibliothèque Rose Illustrée, Nouvelle Edition, 1907 reprint, illustré de 46 vignettes par Gustave Doré and Jules Didier, red stamped boards, aeg, toutes tranches dorées; 8vo; 304 pp. + 20 pp catalogue including a list of 1st and 2nd Series. French language 19thc hardback juvenile.

A beautiful copy of stories first told to her grandchildren. These were intended to entertain children 4 to 8 years old, and sought by Louis Hachette to be part of his scheme of a line of books to be sold at railway kiosks for reading on the train.

CONDITION: Near Fine; James Maryfrank Gardner lightly penciled on fixed endpaper; tight, bright gilt page edges, bright crisply stamped gilt titles and decorations, sharp cornered boards, spine a bit more faded; tight, clean pages toning. Bel exemplaire. Item #22093

Price: $65.00