Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Be...

Light rubbing and soil, Very Good plus overall. 23 x 33 inches, non-archivally mounted on board.

Belle eventually becomes more drawn to Beast, who tests her by letting her return home to her family and telling her that if she doesn't return to him within a week, he will die of grief. The Beast then falls in love with Belle and proposes marriage on a nightly basis, though she refuses. Belle offers to go back to the Beast in her father's place. The plot of Cocteau's film revolves around Belle's father who is sentenced to death for picking a rose from Beast's garden. Directed by French poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau, and starring Josette Day as Belle and Jean Marais and the Beast. A classic 1946 French romantic fantasy film adaptation of the traditional fairy tale of the same name written by Jeanne-Marie Le Prince de Beaumont and published in 1757 as part of a fairy tale anthology ('Le Magasin des Enfants, ou Dialogues entre une sage gouvernante et ses eleves,' London, 1757). From the collection of noted film historian Amos Vogel. Original early 1960s German A1 poster for the 1946 French film, illustrated by Isolde Baumgart. Kingston and Illustrated by Edward Shenton. SIGNED ON THE COLOPHON BY ROBERT LAWSON and Inscribed ' for Charlie' and SIGNED BY JEAN HERSHOLT. The individual volumes are as follows: 1) BEAUTY AND THE BEAST by Mme. Limited edition of 2,500 sets, each volume numbered 1820. 2) Dick Whittington and His Cat: 37 pages and colophon, with bright color illustrations by Robert Lawson (3) Saint George & the Dragon: 75, pages and colophon, illustrated in color by Edward Shenton. The pagination of each volume is as follows: 1) Beauty and the Beast: 45 pages and colophon, illustrated with 9 tipped-in color plates and 3 tipped-in color textual illustrations by Edy Legrand. The extremities of the slighlty soiled slipcase are lightly rubbed. There is faint fading along the edges of the covers.

The books are housed in a red slipcase with a paper label on its spine. Hardcover, three volumes bound in blue, orange, and gray cloth with decorations and illustrations on the front boards, titled in black on the spines, in the original glassine dust wrappers. Quarto, 12 inches high by 8 inches wide.

Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Be...