La petite Bibliothèque de la jeunesse. by (MINIATURE BOOKS).

6 volumes, 32mo (82 ×53 mm, page size 79 ×52 mm), comprising: Contes à mes jeunes amis, pp. viii, 118; Les Féeries morales, pp. 127, [1]; Le petit fabuliste, pp. 126; Souvenirs d’un petit voyageur, pp. 122; L’Historien du jeune âge, pp. 125, [1]; Le petit Conteur, pp. 126, each volume with engraved title and 4 plates, all in uniform quarter sheep of different colours, spines gilt, marbled boards. Souvenirs d’un petit voyageur with slight marking at the joints (apparently children’s teeth marks), Contes a mes jeunes amis with sight loss at foot of upper joint, but generally very good copies. Contained in the original publisher’s gilt and marbled paper covered case in the form of a glass fronted bookcase with pull-off lid (this example without the pedestal feet but the original glass intact). Slightly rubbed and chipped but a very good and attractive example.

A charming miniature juvenile library, complete with its original glass fronted case.
Cotsen A-50 (wanting the glass front); Bondy, p. 77; Welsh, 2012, 2788, 5569, 6481, 3312 and 5558. In the US, Worldcat lists the Wightman copy at the Morgan Library, the Cotsen copy at Princeton, the Adomeit copy at Indiana together with copies at University of Colorado and Oak Spring.