The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French
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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"