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The Sleeping Beauty and Other Fairy Tales from the Old French

Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch

First published 1910
Publisher Hodder & Stoughton
Format Hardcover
Type Collection
Pages 128

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"

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