The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French

Overview:

  • Title: The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French
  • Author: Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch
  • Year: 1910
  • Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
  • Pages: 128
  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Type: Collection
  • Title Reference: The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French
  • Notes: 1st ed.; 4th annual gift book from Dulac and Hodder & Stoughton --Wikipedia and Encyclopedia of Fantasy
    • Red cloth cover with elaborate gilt.
    • Illustrated by Edmund Dulac with colored frontispiece and 29 tipped-in color plates
    • Limited edition of 1000 copies signed by Dulac
    • Some data from PBA Galleries and Christie's Auction House
    • OCLC: #842 of 1000, with list of Contents -- quotes Preface: "Here are three of the most famous tales from Perrault's wallet, and one ... Beauty and the beast, by ... Madam de Villeneuve ... rewritten ... in my own way." -- "128 pages : 30 color plates ; 32 cm" -- "retold by Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch"