Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des Moralitez (Perrault's fairy tales / Mother Goose)

The Barbin Paris 1697 is the true first and the census claim is correct; the 1695 calligraphic manuscript (five tales) precedes it but is not an edition. An Amsterdam counterfeit from Jacques Desbordes appeared the same year, 1697, with Desbordes reprints following in 1708, 1721 and 1729 — and the 1721 Desbordes resetting reordered the tales, putting 'Le petit chaperon rouge' first where Barbin opened with 'La Belle au bois dormant'. That Desbordes order, not Barbin's, was followed by nearly every later 18th-century edition, so tale order is a usable early check. The first English edition is a separately collected book that belongs beside the French: Robert Samber's translation, 'Histories, or Tales of Past Times. Told by Mother Goose. With Morals. Written in French by M. Perrault, and Englished by G. M. Gent.', London: printed for J. Pote at Sir Isaac Newton's Head near Suffolk-Street, Charing-Cross, and R. Montagu at the corner of Great Queen-Street near Drury-Lane, 1729 (ESTC N1854) — parallel English and French text, engraved frontispiece with 'Mother Goose's Tales' set into the plate, dedication by Samber to the Countess of Granville. Two corrections to the census here: the imprint carries both J. Pote and R. Montagu, not Pote alone; and 'Englished by G. M. Gent' is the 1729 wording, where later 18th-century editions read 'Englished by R. S. Gent'.