Madame de Chatelain [editor]. Little Folks' Books : The Story of Puss in Boots, The Charmed Fawn, The Ugly Little Duck, Eleven Wild Swans, The White Cat, Blue Bird. With Illustrations. New York: Leavitt & Allen, Publishers, 379 Broadway, New York, (1857). [11994]
Stiff paper wrappers, printed in colors, now quite soiled with a loosening front cover, 5 x 4 inches, publisher's advert on back. The six stories each have their own title page; there are no page numbers, appx. 16 pp. each, or 96 in total. The text is generally clean with infrequent light foxing. Good. Paperback.
Leavitt & Allen was at 379 Broadway from about 1855 to 1860. This little book is undated; date taken from the bibliography at WorldCat.
Clara de Chatelain (1807-1876), b. & d. London, England. Born Clara Du Maxet de Pontigny, the daughter of a French gentleman and English mother, as a young woman she lived for some years in France. A very prolific author, she wrote for the English periodical press under the pseudonym Leopold Wray. She translated over 400 songs for musical houses, and "her books of fairy-tales included 140 original tales and 50 retellings of classic fairy tales; and she also wrote 16 handbooks." - wikipedia.
