McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

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, [ca. 1840]

Alternative Title:

Sleeping Beauty. English
Paddy and the bear

Contributor:

Perrault,Charles. Belle au bois dormant

Publisher:

Printed for the booksellers, [ca. 1840]

Notes:

Cover title.
Anonymous; "The sleeping beauty of the wood" a version of Perrault's "La belle au bois dormant."
Pamphlets with this imprint date from between 1835 and 1849; probably printed by Francis Orr & Sons (cf. Meriton, J. Small books: p. 987 (114), p. 988 (126)).
Cover included in pagination.
At foot of cover: 52.
First sentence: "There was formerly, in a distant country, a king and queen, the most beautiful and happy in the world ..."
Includes woodcut title vignette (a girl holding a bird in a cage out of reach of a cat) and a woodcut tailpiece (lettered "postscript").
Title page with a decorative floral frame (Meriton entry states "without frame")
Contents: (caption titles) The sleeping beauty, a tale -- The moral [a poem] -- Paddy and the bear.
Citations/References: Meriton, J. Small books, 205 (p. 252) (variant?)

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 15 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Fairy tales.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 19th century.

Chapbook Category:

Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose

Call Number:

PN970 B65 S64 1840 Rare Books/Special Collections

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8003

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_B65_S64_1840