Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The history of Beauty and Beast.

Accession number
PML 88759
Published
Derby : Thomas Richardson ; London : Simpkin and Marshall, [183-]
Credit line
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes
"Welcome, Beauty, banish fear; You are queen and mistress here: Speak your wishes, speak your will, Swift obedience meets them still."--t.p.
Illustrated with engraved, hand-colored frontispiece, title page vignette, and eight textual vignettes.
"Printed by Thomas Richardson, Derby."--p. 47.
Description
47, [1] pages : handcolored illustrations (engraving) ; 18 cm
Inscriptions/Markings
"Emma Frederica Gray, Stratton House. Lent to Miss Emma Nunn by her cousin Emma Gray. Jan. 1847"--inscription in black ink and pencil on recto of fly-leaf.
Provenance
Emma Frederica Gray, inscription; Lincoln Kirstein.
Binding
Contemporary 1/2 green cloth with tan marbled boards.
Classification
Department