Histories or tales of past times told by Mother Goose : with morals: PB 313-2003

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Titles

Histories or tales of past times told by Mother Goose : with morals

Maker(s)

Author: Perrault, Charles
Editor: Childers, J. Saxon
Illustrator: Quick, W. M. R.
Publisher: Nonesuch Press
Printer: R. and R. Clark Ltd.

Description

Written in French by M. Perrault ; & Englished by G. M., gent. ; newly edited by J. Saxon Childers

Contents: Little Red Riding-Hood.--The fairy.--Blue Beard.--The sleeping beauty in the wood.--The master cat.--Cinderella.--Riquet with the tuft.--Little Thumb.

127 p., [1] leaf of plates : col. ill. ; 17 cm

Place(s) associated

London
Edinburgh

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1925

Note

Translation of Histoires ou contes du temps passé Frontispiece and 8 illustrations printed from woodcuts recut by W.M.R. Quick and coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press "This edition is limited to 1250 copies printed in Edinburgh by R. and R. Clark, Ltd. The pictures are hand-coloured. The pictures are hand-coloured. The text-paper is Dutch mould-made & the cover-paper is Chinese. This is number [in ms] 848"-- t.p. verso. Quarter bound in blue cloth with patterned Chinese paper sides.