The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault

First published in 1697 as Histoires ou contes du temps passe, this collection of French fairy tales presents household and courtly wonder stories meant for family reading. Typical pieces include a girl in a red hood who meets a wolf on the path to her grandmother; a cinder-swept daughter who attends a ball in borrowed finery; a princess who sleeps for a hundred years; a cat who wins a castle for a miller's son; and a husband who forbids his wife to open one room. Brief morals close several tales. There is no continuous frame. The book is a short anthology of moralized wonder tales, not a novel and not a folklore treatise.

Bound in red buckram blocked with a coloured design. Red slipcase.