Charles Perrault / Gustave Doré - Les Contes de Perrault - 1875

Fascinating illustrated edition of magnificent compositions by Gustave Doré from one of the most prestigious presentations of the famous tales that have shaped European literary and popular imagination, bringing together foundational texts such as Cinderella, Little Red Riding Hood, Sleeping Beauty, or Puss in Boots, whose moral and symbolic scope goes beyond the frame of the childish tale to inscribe itself in a universal cultural tradition -

The pairing of Perrault's classic text, master of the 17th century, and the masterful engravings of Doré, a 19th-century artist renowned for his dramatic sense and visual imagination, gives the work an exceptional aesthetic dimension, where narrative power is doubled by an iconographic interpretation that magnifies moods and characters -

Charles Perrault / Gustave Doré - The Tales of Perrault - 1875 - J. Hetzel -
- 250 Pages.

Condition: good binding state, book in its full red cartonage nicely decorated, wear from use, spine almost detached unfortunately, joints cracked, corners worn, gilded edges framed around the covers with pretty gold motifs -

Good interior condition, stains, title page printed in red and black, book enriched with beautiful anepigraphic engravings off the text including a frontispiece after the drawings by Gustave Doré with a preface by P. Stahl, marbled index pages -

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