PERRAULT'S COMPLETE FAIRY TALES. Translated from the French by A. E. Johnson and others. With Illustrations by W. Heath Robinson.

PERRAULT, CHARLES. HEATH ROBINSON, W., illustrated by.

Verlag: Constable and Company Limited., London, 1962

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8vo. 9.5 x 6.5 inches. Bound in original blue cloth, gilt, with gilt block on front board, in pictorial dust wrapper, with publisher's advertisements on rear wrapper which has a little edge wear, including at head and tail of spine. Boards lightly sunned at edges and browning of flyleaves; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by the drawings of Heath Robinson, both full page and vignette, including frontispiece. Decorated by preliminary pages vignettes, including title page decoration. Charles Perrault (1628-1703) was a French author and pioneer fairy tale writer, who derived the genre from earlier folk tales. The enduring stories of Little Red Riding Hood, Cinderella, Puss in Boots and Sleeping Beauty first appeared in the French edition of his collection in 1697 (Histoire ou Contes de Temps passe). Perrault had earlier worked as an administrative assistant to Louis-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), Intendant of Finances to Louis XIV from 1661. Three of the stories in the collection (first published in this edition in the US, 1961), are by other authors, Beauty and the Beast by Marie Leprince de Beaumont (1711-81) and Princess Rosette and The Friendly Frog both by Countess Marie d'Aulnoy (1650-1705), a contemporary of Perrault. Illustrated by William Heath Robinson (1872-1944). ART / LITERATURE FAIRIES LIT. FICTION CHILDREN'S FRENCH 17TH CENTURY 20TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED ART / LITERATURE. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 28864

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Titel: PERRAULT'S COMPLETE FAIRY TALES. Translated ...

Verlag: Constable and Company Limited., London

Erscheinungsdatum: 1962