Beauty and the Beast and Other Tales

London and New York: Thames and Hudson and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1982. Hardcover. Fine. Hardcover. A beautiful copy of this lavish edition of this famous fairy tale, here along with the Princess Belle-Etoile and The Yellow Dwarf. The texts of these tales are accompanied by 21 full page color plates done by the famed illustrator Walter Crane. Anthony Crane was his grandson. Bound in glossy red covers with an illustration of Beauty with the dying Beast on the front cover and a description of the book on the rear cover. Slight chip to lower edge of rear cover but otherwise in very good plus condition. Lovely decorated endpapers. Text pages and illustrations are in fine condition. Measures 9.5 x 10.75 inches. Unpaginated [about 46 pages]. CHILD/111725.