Accession number
PML 83162
Creator
Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703.
Published
London : Printed for Tabart and co. ... and to be had of all booksellers ... , 1804.
Notes
"Price Sixpence" precedes date in imprint.
"With three copperplates".
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.
Book list on p. [1] at end; ads on verso of title and rear wrapper.
On verso of title: R. Taylor, Printer, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street.
Plates dated July, 1804.
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.
Translations of Perrault's Le Chat botté; and Les fées.
Plates are hand-colored.
Watermark: 1804.
"With three copperplates".
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.
Book list on p. [1] at end; ads on verso of title and rear wrapper.
On verso of title: R. Taylor, Printer, Black Horse Court, Fleet Street.
Plates dated July, 1804.
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.
Translations of Perrault's Le Chat botté; and Les fées.
Plates are hand-colored.
Watermark: 1804.
Description
35, [1] p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 13 cm
Binding
Publisher's stiff yellow printed wrappers; in folder.
Classification
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