Madame de Genlis — Les Veillees Du Chateau

Paris, Libraires Associes, 1784. Leather. A novel containing a series of moral tales for children by Madame de Genlis, in the original French. In the original French.Complete as three volumes bound in six.An anthology of moral tales for children by Madame de Genlis.The tales in this volume are framed as being told by a mother, Madame de Clemire, to her three young children on a trip to the country.'Les Veillees du Chateau' follows on from Madame Genlis' popular 'Adele et Theodore', a pedagogical epistolary novel published in 1782.Madame Genlis was a prolific writer of both fiction and non-fiction in the eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries. Though she wrote of morality, she was known for having love affairs and possibly illegitimate children. In a full calf binding. Externally, generally smart. Light rubbing to the spines and extremities. Minor bumping to the extremities. A few minor marks to the boards. Crack to the tail of the front joint of Volume V. Bookplate to the front paste downs. Spots to the fore edges. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean, with the occasional scattered spot. Very Good . Ill.: None. Very Good .