Old French Fairy Tales is a collection of French folklore and fairytales, penned by Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur (1799 - 1874).
We publish rare and vintage Golden Age Illustrated books, in high-quality colour editions, so that the masterful artwork and story-telling can continue to delight both young and old..
Pook Press celebrates the great \'Golden Age of Illustration\' in children\'s literature - a period of unparalleled excellence in book illustration.
These include Old French Fairy Tales (1920), Tanglewood Tales (1921) and Arabian Nights (1928).
She only completed three works in her lifetime, due to her early death from tuberculosis at the age of thirty-one.
Sterrett\'s illustrations are delicate yet powerful, inspired by the tradition of Art Nouveaux with its light washes of colour and sinuous black lines.
Sterrett was an American artist and illustrator - one of the most talented, though also most tragic, of the \'Golden Age\' illustrators.
Presented alongside the text, her illustrations further refine and elucidate Ségur\'s masterful storytelling.
The stories in Old French Fairy Tales are accompanied by the truly beautiful illustrations of Virginia Frances Sterrett (1900 - 1931).
The anthology contains stories split into four categories: \'Blondine, Bonne-Biche, and Beau-Minon\', \'Good Little Henry\', \'Princess Rosette\', \'Little Gay Mouse\' and \'Ourson\'.
Ségur was a French writer of Russian birth, best known today for her novel Les Malheurs de Sophie (Sophie\'s misfortunes), intended for children.
Old French Fairy Tales is a collection of French folklore and fairytales, penned by Sophie Rostopchine, Countess of Ségur (1799 - 1874)
