FAIRY TALES Cinderella Sleeping Beauty "Stunning Condition" Edmund hotsell Dulac Illustrations Perraults

A MASTERFUL BOOK OF FAIRY TALES WITH ART BY FRENCH ARTIST EDMUND DULAC
CINDERELLA, SLEEPING BEAUTY, BEAUTY AND THE BEAST, LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD, AND MANY MORE
IN STUNNING CONDITION AND INCLUDES THE ORIGINAL HARDCOVER SLIPCASE

This stunning edition of Fairy Tales contains some of the greatest stories ever written coupled with detailed illustrations. It has the most famous and well-known works like Cinderella and Sleeping beauty but also a plethora of rare stories as well.

'The Prince followed, but could not catch her. Only she dropped one of her glass slippers, which he picked up and treasured' - From Cinderella

When Charles Perrault, a civil servant in Paris in the 17th century, heard his son's nurse recounting old French folk stories, he decided to write his own versions, thereby creating a new genre - the literary fairy tale. His legacy includes some of the most enduringly popular fairy tales - 'Cinderella', 'Sleeping Beauty, 'Blue Beard' - complemented here by the paintings of Edmund Dulac, one of the greatest artists of the Golden Age of book illustration.

Overall the condition of this book is superb, especially considering it's over 20 years old. It comes in the original hard slipcase "not in the photos" and has been well preserved.

Perrault's Fairy Tales was originally written in 1697 by Charles Perrault. He was a French author and member of the Académie française. He laid the foundations for a new literary genre, the fairy tale, with his works derived from pre-existing folk tales. The Thirty Four Illustrations by Gustave Dore from the 'Volume Les Contes de Perrault Dessins' by Gustave Dore, 1867. The best-known of his tales include Le Petit Chaperon Rouge (Little Red Riding Hood), Cendrillon (Cinderella), Le Chat Botté (Puss in Boots), and La Barbe Bleue (Bluebeard). Many of Perrault's stories were rewritten by the Brothers Grimm, hotsell continue to be printed, and have been adapted to opera, ballet (such as Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty), theatre, and film (Disney). Perrault was an influential figure in the 17th-century French literary scene and was the leader of the Modern faction during the Quarrel of the Ancients and the Moderns.