Le Prince Marcassin : conte / par Madame D****.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705, author.

Contributor:

Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705., bibliographic antecedent.

Garnier, Antoine-Jean-Étienne, 1769-1846, printer.

William J. and Irma S. Roach Fund.

Language:

French

Subjects (All):

Fairy tales--Early works to 1800.

Fairy tales.

Chapbooks, French--Specimens--Early works to 1800.

Chapbooks, French.

Physical Description:

71, [1] pages ; 16 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

ieot e,un uieu red' (3) 1780 (Q)

Place of Publication:

A Troyes [France] : Chez Garnier, Imprimeur-Libraire, Place St.-Jacques, [approximately 1780]

Notes:

Possibly the first separate printing of this tale, originally appearing in the Contes des fées of 1697. This tale also appears in the various printings of the Cabinet des fées. The earliest separate edition noted in the catalogue of the Bibliotheque nationale de France is 1809.

Authorship attributed in Palmer, N. and M. English editions ... Mme D'Aulnoy (Studies in bibl. 27 1974), p. 227-232.

Date from Gumuchian, cited below.

Printer may have been Jean-Antoine-Etienne Garnier (1769-1846), whose press was located in "Place St.-Jacques." See Morin, L. Les Garnier imprimeurs et libraires a Troyes. Paris: Librairie Henri Leclerc, 1900, page 15

Signatures: A-F⁸/⁴.

Woodcut title vignette and head-piece.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Leo Cadogan Rare Books.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the William J. and Irma S. Roach Fund.

Kislak Center copy: leaves unsewn, unopened and untrimmed; gatherings held together by a paper band approximately 3.5 cm in width (small tear at spine).

Cited in:

Gumuchian & cie. Livres de l'enfance du XVe au XIXe siècle, 422

British Museum. General catalogue of printed books, 47:639

Related Work:

Aulnoy, Madame d' (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705. Contes des fées, bibliographic antecedent.

OCLC:

13872676