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Les fées : contes des contes / par mademoiselle de ***
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ1735.C5 A62 1725 volume, bookplates
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Caumont de La Force, Charlotte Rose de, -1724.
- Language:
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--France.
- Fairy tales.
- France.
- Penn Provenance:
- Cottier, Charles, 1749-1822 (label) (RBC copy)
- Physical Description:
- 4 unnumbered pages, 545 pages, 3 unnumbered pages ; 17 cm (12mo)
- Other Title:
- Contes des contes
- Fingerprint:
- s.m- ixs- isde quli (3) 1725 (R)
- Place of Publication:
- A Paris : Par la Compagnie des libraires, MDCCXXV [1725]
- Contents:
- Plue belle que fée.
- Persinette.
- L'enchanteur.
- Tourbillon.
- Verd & bleu.
- Le pays des delices.
- La puissance d'amour.
- La bonne femme.
- Notes:
- By Charlotte Rose de Caumont La Force as first identified by Barbier.
- First issued by Mme. la Force in 1698 under title: Les contes des contes. Cf. Cioranescu, XVII siecle, 18011.
- A collection of eight fairy tales similar to other "contes des fees" by Madame d'Aulnoy and Madame de Murat popular in late 17th c. France.
- Signatures: pi² A⁸B⁴-2X⁸/⁴2Y⁸ 2Z².
- Title vignette, headpieces, initials.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James Howard Weiss Memorial Fund.
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward P. Mally, W'83 and Julia Lang Mally, W'83 Endowment for Rare Books and Manuscripts Collections.
- RBC copy has author's name "la Force" added in ms. on title page.
- RBC copy has booklabel of Charles Cottier (1749-1822) first Consul of Carpentras; also included with book are eight additional variant booklabels belonging to Cottier (separately housed).
- RBC copy has unidentifed bookplate with initials "H F" with dark figure emerging from box, possibly a 'diable en boîte' (devil in box) the French version of a jack in the box.
- RBC copy acquire from Amanda Hall Rare Books in 2016.
- OCLC:
- 44831093
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