POPULAR TALES. By Madame Guizot. Translated from the French, by Mrs. L. Burke. New York: P. O'Shea, Publisher, [1867]. 12mo, pp. 404, frontispiece, cloth. Later edition, Ten short stories and novelettes, mostly melodramatic. "Three Chapters in the Life of Nadir" is an Oriental conte philosophique in the tradition of RASSELAS and other eighteenth-century fables, well-marbled with allegory and references to destiny. This popular nineteenth-century collection of folk tales directed to young readers, translated by Anna Christian Burke, appears to have been first published in 1854 in London by George Routledge & Co. The first edition in English apparently was MADAME DE GUIZOT'S TALES FOR YOUTH, an anonymous translation published in London in 1838 by Hamilton, Adams & Co. Also published in the UK as MORAL TALES in 1852. Not in Osborne. Cloth rubbed, lacks rear free endpaper, a solid, good copy. (#113090).
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