The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault (Penguin Classics) by Perrault, Charles (Brereton, Geoffrey – Translator) - 1957

Penguin Books, Harmondsworth, Middlesex, 1957. First Edition. Softcover. Good Condition. Introduction by translator. At the beginning of each small tale is a black and white woodcut illustrations. Illustrated paperback binding with black coloured titles to the front panel and back strip. The original source of some of the world's most famous fairytales – Little Red Riding Hood, The Sleeping Beauty and Bluebeard – for example, lay at the pen of the 17th-century Frenchman, Charles Perrault. Who, like the Grimm brothers in Germany a century later, collected fairytales and folklore from France and put them in to a book form. New translation by Geoffrey Brereton.  Rubbing of the book edges and panels with a little sunning of the back strip. Uniform tanning of text block edges and pages. The book has been stored improperly, and is quite buckled and "bumped".  First edition of the work in this format and binding, and/or set or series. Size: 12mo (standard paperback). [8], IX - XLI, 3] 3 - 113, [5 – of which two are further pages of titles from the publishing house] pages,. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Myths, Legends & Folklore; France; 17th-century; Inventory No: 0125084. . This book is light, and postage will be reduced to $8.00 for shipment within Australia. .