BINDING: RITTER, M., PERRAULT, CHARLES. 1628-1703. LANG, ANDREW, editor. 1844-1912.

Perrault's Popular Tales. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888.

PERRAULT, CHARLES. 1628-1703. LANG, ANDREW, editor. 1844-1912. Perrault's Popular Tales. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1888.
Small 4to (198 x 170 mm). Extra-illustrated with Edelinck portrait in two proof states before letters, a series of plates in proofs in bistre on China paper, and portrait in medallion by Eisen in two states. Full brown levant morocco, front cover inlaid with figure of Puss-in-Boots in various colored morocco by M. Ritter, gilt turn-ins, pink decorated paper doublures and endpapers, top edge gilt, the rest uncut, a few trifling scuffs.
Provenance: Purchased from George MacManus, Philadelphia.

A finely bound and extra-illustrated copy of Lang's edition of Perrault.