AULNOY, Countess of] - Spanish Short Stories. Paris: Claude - Lot 8

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AULNOY, Countess of] - Spanish Short Stories. Paris: Claude - Lot 8
AULNOY, Countess of] - Spanish Short Stories. Paris: Claude Barbin, 1692. 2 vols., in-12, (2) folios, 357 pp.; 352 pp., paper slightly yellowed, brown grained calfskin, decorated ribbed spine, 3 capitals worn down, small loss on the spine of vol. I. TCH I, 212. LEVER 323. First edition. “Capitalizing on the phenomenal success of her works on Spain, she published *Spanish Tales* in 1692, gallant tales in which local color is scarcely evident, consisting solely of accounts of romantic love affairs and fantastical adventures, duels, abductions, violent passions, cuckolded husbands, stolen letters, and disguises.” V. Storer, *La mode contes de fées*, p. 20). Ex-libris by Ferdinand Brunetière.
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