PERRAULT, Charles, and others.

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Le petit Cabinet des Fées; A charming illustrated selection from the most important corpus of fairy tales published in the 18th century, Le Cabinet des fées, published in 41 volumes in 1785-9. The first volume prints the eight famous tales by Charles Perrault originally published as Histoires ou Contes du temps passé (1697): "Le Petit Chaperon rouge", "Les Fées", "La Barbe-bleue", "La Belle au bois dormant", "Le Chat botté", "Cendrillon", "Riquet à la houppe", and "Le Petit Poucet". The concluding tale is "L'Adroite princesse" by Perrault's niece, Marie-Jeanne L'Héritier. The second volume has three more Perrault tales, "Griselidis", "Peau d'Âne", and "Les Souhaits ridicules", together with "Persinette" by Mademoiselle de La Force, "Incarnat Blanc et Noir" attributed to Chevalier de Mailly, "Kadour", a tale set in Kashmir, and "Les Deux Pantoufles". Each volume has a frontispiece of a full-page woodcut on the half-title verso; 15 of the tales have woodcut vignettes at their head.

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