DOUDET, Madame - [LEFÈVRE

Madame Doudet - [Lefèvre, Théodore]. The Thousand and One Nights Told to Baby. Paris, Théodore Lefèvre & Co., Émile Guérin, [1884]. 1 vol. in-4. 32 x 24.5 cm. Half-red cloth, boards with a color illustration, the front board featuring a color illustration. 48 pp. First edition. Superb color illustrations: cover, frontispiece, title vignette and numerous color vignettes. Gathers seven tales of the Thousand and One Nights: Aladdin, Ali Baba, the Enchanted Horse, The Story of Ali-Cogia, The Fisherman and the Genie, The Three Wonders and The Story of the Sleeper Awakened. From the series "Bibliothèque de bébé". The work targets an affluent, educated bourgeois audience, keen to give their children a good education within a family setting. The word “bébé,” influenced by the English baby, at that time designates a preschool-age child, between 0 and 6 years old. Fine copy.

Stima:€150

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