Description
No Jacket, a mylar dust jacket has been added. The Good+ binding is blue cloth over boards with design stamped in the cover, gilt stamping on the spine, shows wear. The binding is tight and pages are clean. Inside front cover is a bookplate stamped in green ilk, endpapers show toning, shelf wear, bumped corners. Top edge gilt. Outside page edges are untrimmed. The illustrations by Charles Robinson are fantastic, a full page color frontispiece plus full page black-and-white illustrations. This book is “The Temple Classics For Young People”.
About the book:
It is to Perrault that we owe our acquaintance with the greater number of good old-fashioned fairy-tales, but an edition of these, although it includes such intimate friends of our childhood as Blue Beard, the Sleeping Beauty, and Little Red Riding-Hood, is hardly complete without Beauty and the Beast’; a version of this tale, by Mme. Le Prince de Beaumont, has, therefore, been added to this collection. It has also been increased, space_ permitting it, by the insertion of two tales by Mme. la Comtesse d Aulnoy; her writings, of a les robust lass than those of Perrault, possess in their atmosphere of hidden magic, the charm which resides in that special feature of fairyland, and the addition of cc The Benevolent Frog’ and c Princess Rosette will not, we think, be unwelcome to the youthful reader.
About the author:
Charles Perrault (January 12, 1628 – May 16, 1703) 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 earlier folk tales, published in his 1697 book Histoires ou contes du temps passé.
About the illustrator:
Charles Robinson (October 22, 1870 – June 13, 1937) was a prolific British book illustrator.
