[Rarebooks] FS: The very rare 1764 Perrault Mother Goose

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(CHILDREN’S LITERATURE) Perrault, Charles. TALES OF PASSED TIMES BY MOTHER 
GOOSE. With Morals Written in French by M. Perrault, and Englished by R. S. 
Gent. To Which Is Added a New One, viz. The Discreet Princess. The Six [sic] 
Edition, Corrected and Adorned with Cuts. London: S. Van Den Berg. 1764. 8vo. 
228pp. With nine copper engraved plates (smaller in size than the letterpress page, 
as published), complete. Two title pages, in French & in English, with the 
entire text in French & English on opposite pages. The newly added story, “The 
Discreet Princess,” has its own two title pages, one in French, one in English. 
Full cont. black morocco ornately gilt tooled. Neatly rebacked, with the 
orig. gilt spine laid down. Orig. red morocco spine label reads, “Mother Goose 
Tales.” Later black endpapers to match. A.e.g. A lovely copy in a contemporary 
binding.     $12,500.00 (trade discount allowed)
A very rare book and perhaps the earliest obtainable English translation of 
the “Tales of Mother Goose.” 1729 is said to be the first, but no copy is 
recorded in the ESTC or in OCLC or any of the standard children’s references. The 
next surviving English edition is 1741, with only 1 copy recorded, at the 
Lilly Library. A 1750 edition is also known in one copy, obtained by the Pierpont 
Morgan Library in 1917. Both of these editions have only 1 plate. The next 
edition is undated but “circa 1755” of which no copy survives in America, and a 
single copy at the British Library. There are in fact 2 issues of the 1764 
imprint, “for S. Van Den Berg” (ESTC:2 copies) and “for J. Melvil” (ESTC: 3 
copies). The translation by “R. S.” [Robert Samber] is in fact by G. Miege.

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