The popular story of Blue Beard, or, Female curiosity : embellished with beautiful engravings.
Bibliographic Citation:
The popular story of Blue Beard, or, Female curiosity : embellished with beautiful engravings. London : Ryle & Co., [between 1846 and 1859]
Alternative Title:
Female curiosity
History of Blue Beard
Publisher:
Ryle & Co., [between 1846 and 1859]
Notes:
  • Undated. Date suggested by P.A.H. Brown's London publisher's and printers p. 168.
  • Cover title and imprint.
  • Publisher's advertisements on p. [4] of wrapper.
  • First sentence: "There was a man who had fine houses, both in town and country, a deal of silver and gold plate, embroidered furniture, and coaches gilded all over with gold."
  • Includes 7 woodcuts.
  • Copies in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 1 hand-coloured woodcut and 6 other cuts in text. One copy with blue pictorial paper wrappers. Other copy with pale pink pictorial wrappers.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 18 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
Copyright:
All images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. For information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.
Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7566
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_R9_P67_1846