Note 17 — PERRAULT'S
Reading edition
Histoires ou Contes du Tems Passé, avec des Moralités. A Paris. Chez Claude Barbin, sur le second peron de la Sainte-Chapelle; au Palais. Avec Privilége de sa Majesté, 1697. In 12o. 230 pp. Bibliothèque de M. Cousin, 9677. The frontispiece, by Clouzier, represents an old woman spinning, and telling tales to a man, a girl, a little boy, and a cat which, from its broad and intelligent grin, naturalists believe to be of the Cheshire breed. On a placard is written
CONTES
DEMA
MERE
LOYE.
A copy, modified, of the engraving is printed on the cover of M. Charles Deulin's Les Contes de Ma Mère L'Oye avant Perrault. (Paris, Dentu, 1879.) The design holds its own, with various slight alterations, in the English chap-books of Mother Goose's Tales, even in the present century. There is a vastly 'embroidered' reminiscence of Clouzier in the edition edited by M. Ch. Giraud, for Perrin of Lyon, 1865.