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Charles Perrault

Male : Author, Poet & Folklorist. Maybe assisted by his son Pierre (1678-1700)
Nationality : French Place of Birth : Paris

Date of Birth : 1628 Date of Death : 1703 Age : 75

Other Work : Worked in Louis XIV's Civil Service. Degree in Law
[Laid down the first collection of fairy stories in which appeared Bluebeard, Cinderella,
Diamonds & Toads, Hop o' My Thumb, Little Red Riding Hood, Puss in Boots
and the Sleeping Beauty
Some had appeared earlier in two Italian collections, the Piacevolli Notti of Straparola
(1550)
and Il Penteramerone of Basile
(1634-6)]

17thC
La Belle au bois dormant
(1696)
Histoires, Ou Contes Du temps Passe, Avec Des Moralitez
(1697 Claude Barbin, Paris)

18thC
Contes
(1729 Robert Samber)
Tales of Passed Times, by Mother Goose
(1764)
Mother Goose's Tales by Charles Perrault
(1777 Newbery & Collins. 7th Ed)

1800-1850
The History of the Sleeping Beauty
(c1815 Walker, Otley) - chapbook
The Entertaining Story of Little Red Riding Hood
(c1820 Kendrew, York) - chapbook
Adventures of the Beautiful Little Maid Cinderella
(c1820 Kendrew) - Chapbook
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
(c1820 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh)
The History of Bluebeard and Fatima
(c1825 G Martin, London)

1851-1899
Les Contes De Perrault
(1862 Paris) - Gustave Dore
Bluebeard
(c1864 McLoughlin, NY)
Cinderella
(1869 McLoughlin, NY)
Little Red Riding Hood
(c1870 McLoughlin)
Bluebeard
(c1880 William Walker, Otley)
The Sleeping Beauty
(c1880 Wm Walker, Otley)
Little Red Riding Hood
(c1880 McLoughlin, NY)
Perrault's Popular Tales
(1888 Clarendon Press) - Ed by Andrew Lang
Cinderella
(1894 Dent)
The Sleeping Beauty & Dick Whittington
(1894 Dent) - Robert Anning Bell
Tales of Passed Times
(1899 Dent) - Charles Robinson
Deux Contes de Ma Mere L'Oye
(1899 Eragny Press) - 220. Lucien Pissarro

1900-1925
Beauty and the Beast & other Stories
(c1900 A L Burt, NY)
Hop o' My Thumb
(1900 Nister No 397)
Puss in Boots
(c1905 W Westall, London) - Ethel K Burgess
Contes de Perrault
(1910 Siegle & Hill) - Margaret Tarrant
The Sleeping Beauty & Other Tales
(1910 Hodder & Stoughton) - Edmund Dulac
Perrault's Fairy Tales
(1911 Herbert Daniel) - Honor C Appleton
The Sleeping Beauty & other Tales
(1912 Blackie) - John Hassall
Fairy Tales
(1913 Dent) - Charles Robinson
The Sleeping Beauty
(1919 Heinemann) - Arthur Rackham. Signed Ltd Ed 625
The Sleeping Beauty
(1920 Heinemann) - Arthur Rackham
Old Time Stories
(1921 Constable) - W Heath Robinson
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
(1922 Harrap) - Harry Clarke
Offered in 1996 for £325
The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault
(1922 Harrap) - Harry Clarke. De luxe Ed in leather
Tales of Past Times
(1922 Selwyn & Blount) - John Austen. 200 signed
Offered in 1991 for £220
Histories or Tales of Past times Told by Mother Goose, with Morals
(1925 Nonesuch Press) - 1250

After 1926
A Fairy Garland, being Fairy Tales from the Old French
(1928 Cassell)
- 1000 signed by Edmund Dulac
Histories or Tales of Past Times
(1928 Fortune Press, London) - 1025
Little Red Riding Hood
(1934 Blue Ribbon Press, London) - C Carey Cloud & Harold B Lentz
Puss in Boots
(1944 Duenwald Printing Corp, NY) - 5 movables by Julian Wehr
Sleeping Beauty
(c1940s Collins) - Justin Michman
The Fairy Tales
(1950 Bodley Head) - Phillipe Julian
Perrault's Fairy Tales
(1967 Cape) - Janusz Grabianski
Puss in Boots : Retold by Erich Kastner
(1967 Cape)
Puss in Boots, or The Master Cat
(1969 World, NY)
The Sleeping Beauty & Other Fairy Tales
(1981 Hodder & Stoughton - Centennial Ltd Ed) - Edmund Dulac

Undated Editions
Puss in Boots
(nd. The Stump Books) - Louis Wain
Little Red Riding Hood
(nd. Collins) - Molly B Thompson
Histories of Past Times told by Mother Goose
(nd. Fortune Press) - 1025

EDITIONS OF CINDERELLA
17thC
Histoires, Ou Contes Du temps Passe, Avec Des Moralitez
(1697 Claude Barbin, Paris)
[Cinderella first appeared in these stories]

19thC
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
(c1820 Oliver & Boyd, Edinburgh)
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
(1827 John Harris, London)
The History of Cinderella, or the Little Glass Slipper
(c1830 Glasgow) - chapbook
Cinderella
(1869 McLoughlin, NY)
Ye Interestinge Storie of Cinderella and ye Lyttel Glass Slyppere
(c1880 Nimmo, Edinburgh)
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
(c1880 Wm Walker, Otley)
Cinderella, or The Little Glass Slipper
(c1880 Warne - Aunt Louisa's Toy Books)

20thC
Cinderella Panorama Book
(c1905 Collins, Glasgow)
Cinderella
(1915 Harrap) - Willy Pogany
Cinderella
(1915 Hodder & stoughton) - Millicent Sowerby
Cinderella
(1919 Heinemann) - Arthur Rackham
Cinderella
(1919 Heinemann) - Arthur Rackham. De luxe signed edition 525
Cinderella
(1919 Heinemann) - Arthur Rackham. De luxe signed Ed 325
Cinderella Panorama Book
(1930s Collins)
Cinderella
(c1940s Folding Books Ltd, London) - 6 pop-ups. Roland Pym
Cinderella
(c1940 Dean, London) - Fred Spurgin
Cinderella
(c1940s Collins) - Justin Michman
Cinderella
(1945 Dutton, NY) - 5 movables by Julian Wehr
Cinderella or the Little Glass Slipper
(1972 Faber) - Errol Le Cain
Cinderella and Other Tales from Perrault
(1989 Holt US) - Michael Hague


Related Writers

Edmund Dulac
Edinburgh
Andrew Lang
Mother Goose
Willy Pogany
Arthur Rackham
Charles Robinson


See also

Honor Charlotte Appleton
Caldecott Award, 1938-1974
Shirley Hughes
Nonesuch Press, The
William Heath Robinson
William Stobbs
Margaret Winifred Tarrant