Text in French.

With added colophon; some issues lack colophon, some colophons lack dates. When dated, colophons read "1783."

Imprints vary; colophons for 1782 issues read: "de l'imprimerie de T. Spilsbury, Snow-hill; Jan., Apr., and June issues for 1783 read: "de l'imprimerie d'E. Cox, Great-Queen Street, Lincoln's-Inn fields."

From the prospectus for the London edition: "printed in London, 1783, in 12 vols. demi-guinea for the set, One shilling per volume."

First issue (Jan. 1782) includes prospectus; last issue (Dec. 1783) includes list of subscribers.

Numbering skips from no. 1 (janvier, 1782) to no. 4 (avril, 1782); nos. 2 and 3 are included as 15 mai 1783, and 1er juin 1783.

Contains stories for children.

"First published in Paris in twenty-four monthly parts, beginning January 1, 1782. For this London edition, in order to co-ordinate publishing dates in London and Paris, the first two volumes bear the imprint date 1782, but contain three numbers with bi-monthly dates: 1 mai, 15 mai, and 1 juin, 1783"--Osborne Coll.

Reprint. Originally published in France, Jan. 1782-Dec. 1783.

Some numbers re-issued in 1783 with altered dates (cf. T107215).

England London.