(CHAPBOOK). ~ L'Enfant sage a trois ans, contenant les Demandes que lui fit l’Empereur Adrien et les reponses de l’Enfant. Caen: P. Chalopin, [n.d., last decades of the eighteenth century]
32mo (100 × 56 mm), pp. 23, [1]. Woodcut title fleuron. Stitched in contemporary pale blue wrapper.
A tiny catechism dialogue for the youngest of children, L’Enfant sage a trois ans was a popular title among printers of chapbooks in the bibliothèque bleue genre and is known in several imprints from different towns (notably Troyes). The text emerged in the later middle ages and appeared in print from the earliest times. Hélot, 76; Suchier, L’Enfant Sage... die erhaltenen Versionen (Dresden 1910), p. 227.
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