321 - Anonymous. Humorous winter tales to be told by the caravan. No place or publisher (Basel, Serini), 1780. 63, 283, 4 pages. Late half-leather binding with gilt title on spine (slightly rubbed and somewhat faded at the edges).

Anonymous. Humorous winter tales to be told by the caravan. No place or publisher (Basel, Serini), 1780. 63, 283, 4 pages. Late half-leather binding with gilt title on spine (slightly rubbed and somewhat faded at the edges). Hayn/Gotendorf VIII, 549; Hobrecker Collection 355; Fairy Tales in the German Enlightenment, pages 395. - First edition. - Contains 42 mostly racy tales, including many anonymous ones as well as those based on La Fontaine, Saint-Gilles, Saint-Marc, Vergier, Voltaire, etc. 'Particularly interesting is ... the introduction (after Dorat and Diderot), which gives a good overview of French novellas of the 17th and 18th centuries, but does not appear to have been bound into all copies' (Hayn/G.). - Wide margins. - Bound interim wrappers somewhat stained.