{
  "title": "Beauty and the Beast: whom later printings name as the author",
  "description": "Five statements, read in four printings, 1786 to 1907, on who wrote the tale, with where each appears and its wording. Quotations are from the public-domain editions named in the printing column, except the French Railway Library wording, which is quoted from Planché’s note of 1858.",
  "license": "CC BY 4.0",
  "license_url": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
  "creator": "Once Upon a Version",
  "page": "https://onceuponaversion.com/tellings/beauty-and-the-beast-versions/",
  "derived_from": [
    "Villeneuve, “La Belle et la Bête,” Le Cabinet des fées, vol. 26 (Genève and Paris, 1786), pp. 33–238, page scans of the Boston Public Library copy, read 2026-11-04",
    "J. R. Planché, Four and Twenty Fairy Tales (London: Routledge, 1858), Project Gutenberg 52719, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/52719, read 2026-11-04",
    "Andrew Lang, ed., The Blue Fairy Book (1889), Project Gutenberg 503, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/503, read 2026-11-04",
    "Andrew Lang, ed., The Olive Fairy Book (1907), preface, Project Gutenberg 27826, https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/27826, read 2026-11-04"
  ],
  "method": "Compiled by Once Upon a Version from the data listed",
  "data_credit": [
    "Le Cabinet des fées (1786), Planché 1858, Lang 1889 and 1907 (Project Gutenberg), retrieved 2026-11-04"
  ]
}