MARMONTEL'S MORAL TALES

First edition with these illustrations, first printing. Publisher's original navy blue cloth with titles and illustrations in gilt to the upper board and spine. Top edge gilt. Illustrated with a tissue-guarded frontispiece and 44 line drawings throughout by Christine Hammond. A very good copy, the binding square and firm with slight bumping to the bottom corner of the lower board. The contents, with a previous owner's inscription to the flyleaf, some spotting to the text block edges and foxing to the frontispiece, tissue guard, title page and half title, are otherwise clean throughout. An attractive example.

An appealing edition of Jean-François Marmontel's eighteenth-century tales, selected and edited by the literary scholar George Saintsbury, and illustrated by the prolific fin-de-siècle female illustrator Christine Hammond.