Charles Perrault: Group of Eight Assorted French Versions of Perrault Fairytales (From the collection of renowned children's literature collector, Justin G. Schiller.)

Charles Perrault. Group of Eight Assorted French Versions of Perrault Fairytales. All from the collection of renowned children's literature collector, Justin G. Schiller. Paris: ca.1826-1944. Two copies of Lettres sur Les Contes de Fées et sur l'Origine de la Féerie. Paris: Baudouin, 1826. One copy is the first edition, first printing. First edition with paper wrappers bound into later marbled binding, other copy in original paper wrappers. Some dampstaining, foxed, edges untrimmed and toned, minor edgewear, first edition with library bookplape to front free endpaper verso. Good. Collin de Plancy. Oevres Choisies de Ch. Perrault, de l'Académie Française. Paris: Peytieux, 1826. Corners bumped, moderate edgewear, spine sunned, somewhat rubbed, somewhat foxed. Very good. Contes des Fées par Charles Perrault. Paris: Théodore Lefèvre, no date [ca.1850]. Minor edgewear, somewhat rubbed and soiled, edges foxed. Very good. Timothée Trimm (Léo Lespé) and Henry De Montaut  [illustrator]. Les Contes de Perrault. Paris: Librairie du Petit Journal, 1865. Journal Illustré edition. Moderate edgewear, front joint starting, rubbed, minor intermittent thumbsoiling and dampstaining. Very good. Drian [illustrator]. Contes de Perrault. Paris: Éditions d'Art de la Roseraie, [1922]. Moderate edgewear, edges untrimmed and toned with minor chipping, minor foxing. Very good. Contes de ma Mére Loye. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé. Paris: Claude Eveline, 1923. Limited edition, one of 35 copies printed to Japanese Vellum. Minor edgewear, front joint just starting, toned in margins, very good. Histoires ou Contes du Temps Passé. [Paris]: A. Tallone, 1944. Fine. Custom brown paper slipcase with chemise.