The article attempts to determine the typology of illustrations to Charles Perrault's fairy tales from the end of the 17th century to the present day. The symbolism of the illustrations of the first edition is considered. Typological features of drawings by French artists of the 19th century are determined. The features of the Soviet school of book graphics and its transformation in the 1960s and 1970s are considered separately.
Charles Perrault, Frederic Theodore Leakes, Antoine Cloisier, Gustave Doret, Van Gogh, Paul Cezanne, Boris Dekhterev, Traugot brothers, Ilya Kabakov, book illustration, graphics, symbol, meanings
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