Accession number
PML 85152
Published
Glasgow : Published by Lumsden & Son at their toy book manufactory, [between 1801 and 1804].
Notes
"Embellished with eight elegant copper plate engravings".
[8] leaves of plates included in pagination.
Abridged from the original version first published by F. Newbery ca. 1773; tales 1, 3, 4 and 7 are based on contes by Madame d'Aulnoy; tales 2, 5 and 6 are based on: Les chevaliers errans / Madame d'Auneuil.
At foot of t.p.: Price sixpence.
PML copy: ms. inscription on recto of frontispiece leaf dated Octr. the 15th, 1804; watermark p. 21-22, 35-36: 1801.
T.p. is engraved.
[8] leaves of plates included in pagination.
Abridged from the original version first published by F. Newbery ca. 1773; tales 1, 3, 4 and 7 are based on contes by Madame d'Aulnoy; tales 2, 5 and 6 are based on: Les chevaliers errans / Madame d'Auneuil.
At foot of t.p.: Price sixpence.
PML copy: ms. inscription on recto of frontispiece leaf dated Octr. the 15th, 1804; watermark p. 21-22, 35-36: 1801.
T.p. is engraved.
Description
52 p. : ill. (etchings) ; 13 cm
Binding
Original Dutch floral boards; in folder.
Classification
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