Contes des Fées illustrator-William Joyce in publisher's original full-color pictorial

in publisher's original full-color pictorial dust jacket (not price-clipped with minute chipping at upper edge of boards)

Being the Stories of The Golden Goose

else a fine copy in original color pictorial dust jacket (several small chips at edges

A remarkably clean

Neill's 42 full-page

Contes des Fées illustrator-William Joyce in publisher's original full-color pictorial[PERRAULT, Charles]. Contes des Fes. Paris: Arnauld de Vresse (ca. 1850). Oblong 8vo, [24]pp. Green cloth with front decoratively stamped in gilt. 16 pages of hand colored lithographs. Rebacked, edges worn, light rubbing to front and rear boards, internal foxing, else an internally bright copy with the hand colored lithographs quite vibrant. Circa 1850 edition. An early edition featuring three of the most beloved of Charles Perraults fairy tales: