PERRAULT (Charles). La Marquise de Salusses, ou La Patience de Grisélidis. [In: Recueil de plusieurs pièces d'éloquence et de poësie présentées à l'Académie Françoise pour les prix de l'année 1691. - pp. 147-194]. Paris, Veuve de Jean-Baptiste Coignard et Jean-Baptiste Coignard Fils, 1691. In-12, (5) ff. including title, 324 pp. in brown calf, spine ribbed and decorated, spotted edges (contemporary binding). T. Gheeraert, Contes merveilleux. Honoré Champion, 2005, 19. First edition of Charles Perrault's very first fairy tale, in verse. It was read on 25 August 1691 before the Académie française by Abbé Lavau, and applauded; this collection went to press two months later, on 22 September 1691. This tale was then published the same year in a separate volume by Jean-Baptiste Coignard (58 pp.). Provenances: handwritten ex-libris Abbé de Tondut; printed ex-libris of the Collège de la Compagnie de Jésus in Nice; on the title (and pp. 11, 21, and 324), blue stamp of the Bibliothèque du Lycée de Nice. Minor stains, foxing. Very worn binding, major loss to headpieces, traces of label at foot.