The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

London: The Folio Society, 2009. Cloth. Fine. 10.5" by 8". Edmund Dulac. An excellent Folio Society facsimile edition of Charles Perrault's fairy tales, illustrated in colour by Edmund Dulac, and enclosed in a slipcase. The eleventh printing of the Folio Society facsimile edition of this work in the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, in a slipcase. Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and twenty-nine further colour plates. Collated, complete.The Folio Society facsimile edition of this charming work, with exquisite illustrations by the notable French-British book illustrator Edmund Dulac (1882-1953). This edition reprints, with minor emendations, the versions of 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Blue Beard', 'Cinderella', and 'Beauty and the Beast' first published by Hodder & Stoughton in 1912, as The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French, retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch, illustrated by Edmund Dulac. The texts of the remaining tales are based on the original Robert Samber translation.The tales in this volume include: 'The Sleeping Beauty', 'Little Red Riding-Hood', 'Blue Beard', 'Puss in Boots', 'The Fairy', 'Cinderella', 'Riquet-with-the-Tuft', 'Hop-o'-my-Thumb' and 'Beauty and the Beast'. In the publisher's original pictorial cloth binding, in a slipcase. Externally, in lovely bright condition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Faint marks to the top of the slipcase, which is otherwise in excellent condition. Fine