Item #1364 The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story. Charles PERRAULT.
The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story
The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story

The Sleeping Beauty of the Wood; an Entertaining Tale, To Which is Added Paddy and the Bear, A True Story

Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, No date [c. 1840]. String-tied Cloth over Board. 16mo (6” x 3 7/8”); 24pp; front wrapper imprinted with a decorative border and small vignette of a girl holding a birdcage high above a sitting cat, rear wrapper is pp24; lacking publisher’s string binding, 3” split at fold, light chipping fore-edge; very good minus. Very good. Item #1364

The story of a Sleeping Beauty extends back to the 14th century and has been retold many times, first published by Perrault in Histoires ou contes du temps passé  in 1697.

Price: $50.00

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