Accession number
PML 83161
Creator
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Published
London : Printed for Tabart and co. ... and to be had of all booksellers ... , 1804.
Notes
"Price Sixpence" appears in imprint.
"With three copperplates".
Ad for this series in Sleeping Beauty (Tabart, l804) describes this title as "embellished with exact coloured representations of three of the principal scenes in the performance of this grand spectacle at Drury Lane Theatre."
Advertisement for this book as part of series Popular stories (in True history of a little old woman. Tabart, l806) identifies the illustrators as [W.M.] Craig and [Richard?] Corbould.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
On verso of title: Taylor, Printer, Black Horse, Court, Fleet Street.
Plates dated August 7, l804.
Series editor previously thought to be William Godwin, but more likely was Mary Jane Godwin, his 2nd wife. See P. Marshall's biography of Godwin, p. 265.
Translation of: Cendrillon / Charles Perrault.
PML copy: rear wrapper wanting.
Watermark: W. Sharp, l801.
"With three copperplates".
Ad for this series in Sleeping Beauty (Tabart, l804) describes this title as "embellished with exact coloured representations of three of the principal scenes in the performance of this grand spectacle at Drury Lane Theatre."
Advertisement for this book as part of series Popular stories (in True history of a little old woman. Tabart, l806) identifies the illustrators as [W.M.] Craig and [Richard?] Corbould.
Illustrations are hand-colored.
On verso of title: Taylor, Printer, Black Horse, Court, Fleet Street.
Plates dated August 7, l804.
Series editor previously thought to be William Godwin, but more likely was Mary Jane Godwin, his 2nd wife. See P. Marshall's biography of Godwin, p. 265.
Translation of: Cendrillon / Charles Perrault.
PML copy: rear wrapper wanting.
Watermark: W. Sharp, l801.
Description
36 p., [3] leaves of plates : col. ill. (engravings) ; 13 cm
Binding
Publisher's stiff gold wrappers; in folder.
Classification
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Department