Histoire de tom pouce.
London.
[s.n.], 1833.
First edition.
12mo.
[4], 44pp. With a frontispiece and a further three plates. Original publisher's blind-ruled navy buckram, lettered in gilt to upper board. Lightly rubbed, spine dulled. Hinges exposed, blind-stamp of Cambridge bookbinder F. Munns to FFEP.
The first edition of a French language version of Tom Thumb, featuring his adventures in the time of King Arthur, which, according to the English preface is 'the translation of a little girl, corrected by her master, the idiom being kept; as near the English as possible.'
£ 450.00
Antiquates Ref: 28836