PERRAULT, Charles et al “Contes de Fées” [Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1908]

PERRAULT, Claude; D’AULNOY, Mme; LE PRINCE DE BEAUMONT. Contes de Fées.

Paris: Librairie Hachette et Cie, 1908. Nouvelle édition. French language. 7" x 4.5", 413pp. Illustrated with 65 wood-engraved vignettes by Bertall, Beaucé, and others. Finely bound in full crimson prize calf, covers with elaborate gilt border rolls and central gilt armorial crest of “Schola Regia Granthamiensis” (Grantham School), spine richly gilt in compartments with floral tools and black morocco title label lettered in gilt. All edges marbled to match the marbled endpapers. Awarded as a Grantham School prize (bookplate to front pastedown, inscribed to “Jackson, Primus” for French and Latin, signed by the Head Master). Binding secure but with a yawn. Endpapers foxed. Gilt bright and well-preserved; light rubbing to extremities and minor surface marks to boards; text clean. A handsome institutional prize binding. Very Good.

A richly illustrated early twentieth-century Hachette edition of classic French fairy tales drawn from Perrault, Mme d’Aulnoy, and Le Prince de Beaumont, here preserved in an especially attractive English school prize binding with armorial crest and marbled edges. Includes “Beauty and the Beast”, “Cinderella”, “Sleeping Beauty”, and many other classics.