by Charles Perrault; Edmund Dulac (Illustrator); Robert Samber (Translator); Arthur Quiller-Couch

The Prince followed; but could not catch her. Only she dropped one of her glass slippers; which he picked up and treasured' - From Cinderella
When Charles Perrault; a civil servant in Paris in the 17th century; heard his son's nurse recounting old French folk stories; he decided to write his own versions; thereby creating a new genre - the literary fairy tale. His legacy includes some of the most enduringly popular fairy tales - 'Cinderella'; 'The Sleeping Beauty'; 'Blue Beard' - complemented here by the paintings of Edmund Dulac; one of the greatest artists of the Golden Age of book illustration.