[Rarebooks] FS: 20 short morality plays for child actors. Paris: 1769

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(JUVENILE LITERATURE) Moissy, Alexandre G. M. de. LES JEUX DE LA PETITE
THALIE, OU NOUVEAUX PETITS DRAMES DIALOGUES SUR DES PROVERBS, Propres a
Former les Moeurs des Enfans & des Jeunes Personnes, Depuis l'Age de
Cinq Ans Jusqu'a Vingt. Paris: Chez Bailly. 1769. First edition.
xvi,344pp. Copper engraved frontispiece by Eisen. Woodcut device on
title. Cont. calf, gilt decorated spine with red morocco label, over
marbled boards. Hinges rubbed & a small split at foot of front hinge,
but holding soundly. A few leaves with an old stain, but otherwise
quite clean.    $300.00
Twenty short morality plays written for child actors, illustrating
proverbs, among them, "La Petite Verole" to "console young ladies
disfigured by smallpox, and a comforting tale for ugly youngsters," and
"Les Liasions Dangereuses." Cohen-De Ricci, page 710. For the
frontispiece by Eisen, see Salomons, EISEN, p. 137. Over the next 30
years this work was reprinted in Berlin, Brussels, Amsterdam and
Leipzig.

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