Little Red Riding Hood still takes a little pot of butter to her grandmother, as she had done since 1729, and the gaffer wolf is still forced to use its rather elaborate charade to eat Red Riding Hood because faggot-gatherers are working nearby when it first encounters her. Otherwise these versions are remarkably true to Perrault's original, as the retention of apparently minor details from the first English edition illustrates. That is the case in these editions, although the moral Perrault appended to his tale - about the danger of young girls trusting anyone, for wolves appear in all sorts of guises - is repeated, in paraphrased form, only in Kendrew's edition (0028, p.17). Equally often, the tale retained the original, rather gruesome ending.

Sometimes a different denouement from that used by Perrault was appended to the tale, in which the heroine lived and the wolf died. From then on the tale was frequently republished in various forms, often as a chapbook, as in the case of these examples from the Hockliffe Collection. Then theatrical versions appeared, such as Red Riding Hood or, The Wolf Robber, a 'Dramatic Farce' by Charles Dibdin (1803), and new editions were published in both prose and verse, notably a collaboration by Benjamin Tabart and John Harris (1808), who had both done so much to rehabilitate the fairy story after a period in which it had been condemned as immoral and frivolous. Like many of the fairy tales from this period, it was reprinted a number of times during the remainder of the eighteenth century, but only began to achieve its classic status in the early nineteenth century. Little Red Riding Hood was the first of the tales in Charles Perrault's celebrated collection of fairy tales Histoires, ou contes du temps passé which first appeared in France in 1697 and in Britain in 1729. They are identical apart from their covers. There are two copies of Kendrew's edition of The Entertaining Story of Little Red Riding Hood in the Collection ( 00). The Hockliffe Collection possesses two short chapbook version of Little Red Riding Hood, one published by William Davison of Alnwick ( 0027), the other by J. Perrault first published 'Little Red Riding Hood' as one of his Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697 they were first translated into English, as Histories, or tales of past times, in 1729 Little Red Riding Hood, and the wicked wolf

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