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

Object information

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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.

Categories

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.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper
Illustrations

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 313-2003
Primary reference Number: 96020
Stable URI

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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