Little Tales By FéNelon [Miniature Children's Books]: FÉNelon, FrançOis De Salignac De La Mothe 18Th & 19Th Century British Fiction,Children's Books,Fine Bindings

Original silk decorated boards, floral onlays. Faintly imprinted endpapers. 80 x 50 mm. All four volumes present. Four hand-colored frontispiece plates, and three additional hand-colored plates illustrate the "Little Tales," Volume 3 contains a frontispiece only. Each title page numbered with blind stamp "Polizei-Verwaltung zu Guben." Hand coloring is bright and fresh, onlay on Vol. 3 is not present, and the toe of the spine is chipped. A very lovely set of tales, probably printed in Germany for the English juvenile; very good or better. Eighth edition. Contents as follows: 1. Story of Flora; The Ape; The Two Mice; 2. Alibée; The Young Princess; The Bee and the Fly; 3. A Journey to Fairyland; The Story of the Old Queen and a Young Peasant; 4. The Island of Delight; The Cat and the Rabbits; The Meeting of the Animals to Choose a King. Spielmann 152 Welsh 2798.