3 options
Perrault's fairy tales / translated by A.E. Johnson ; illustrated by Gustave Doré.
LIBRA PQ1877 .A25 1969
Available from offsite location
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PQ1877 .A2 1969 Rudolph Doré Collection copy
Available in person
Request an item
Access options
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703, author.
- Series:
- Dover pictorial archive series
- Dover fairy tale books
- Standardized Title:
- Contes des fées. English
- Language:
- English
- French
- Subjects (All):
- Fairy tales--France.
- Fairy tales.
- France.
- Children's stories, French--Translations into English.
- Children's stories, French.
- Genre:
- Fairy tales.
- Translations.
- Fiction.
- Penn Provenance:
- Rudolph, Robert I., M.D. (donor) (Rudolph Doré Collection of Gustave Doré copy)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 116 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Dover Publications, Inc., [1969]
- Language Note:
- Translated from the French to the English by A. E. Johnson.
- Summary:
- Original versions of "Cinderella," "Sleeping Beauty," "Little Red Riding Hood," and more. With 34 wonderful illustrations by Gustave Dore.
- Contents:
- The sleeping beauty in the wood
- Little Red Riding Hood
- Blue Beard
- The master cat, or Puss in Boots
- The fairies
- Cinderella, or The little glass slipper
- Ricky of the Tuft
- Little Tom Thumb.
- Notes:
- "Contains the eight stories of Charles Perrault published in Histoires ou contes du temps passé, avec des moralitéz, Paris, 1697. Translations of stories are from Old-time stories told by Master Charles Perrault, translated by A.E. Johnson ... 1921. Translations of verse morals are from Perrault's fairy tales, newly translated by S.R. Littlewood ... 1912 ... illustrations by Gustave Doré from the volume Les contes de Perrault, dessins par Gustave Doré, originally published ... 1867."--Verso of title leaf.
- Local Notes:
- Kislak Center Rudolph Doré Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2018 by Robert I. Rudolph, M.D., C'67, M'71, GME'75.
- ISBN:
- 0486223116
- 9780486223117
- OCLC:
- 77147
- Online:
- Contributor biographical information
- Publisher description
- http://www.johncoulthart.com/feuilleton/2015/03/04/gustave-dores-fairy-tales-of-charles-perrault/
- http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/authors/search/?query=Dor%c3%a9,+Gustave
- http://www.britannica.com/biography/Charles-Perrault
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.