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Ali Baba, or, The forty thieves : a tale for the nursery : with three copperplates.

Accession number
PML 83145
Published
London : Printed for Tabart and co. ... and to be had of all dealers in books ... , 1805.
Notes
Advertisement for this book as part of series Popular stories (in True history of a little old woman. Tabart, 1806) identifies the illustrators as [W.M.] Craig and [Richard?] Corbould.
Series editor previously thought to be William Godwin, but more likely Mary Jane Godwin, his 2nd wife. See P. Marshall's biography of Godwin, p. 265.
On verso of title: D.N. Shury, printer, Berwick Street.
"Price Sixpence" omitted from imprint.
Book list on [2] p. at end; ads on verso of title and rear wrapper.
Plates are dated May 15, 1805.
Watermark: 1804.
Plates are hand-colored.
Description
33, [3] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 13 cm.
Binding
Publisher's stiff yellow printed wrappers; in folder.
Classification
Department