| Leicester University Library: | S.C.S. 04601 |
| Leicester University Library: | S.C.S. 04601 |
| British Library: | 12411.aaa.40 |
A3r
[in oval frame of decorative lozenges] HISTORIES OR TALES OF PAST TIMES TOLD BY MOTHER GOOSE WITH MORALS Written in French by M. Perrault, & Englished by G.M., Gent. Newly edited by J. Saxon Childers. [Nonesuch mark Dreyfus 25] THE NONESUCH PRESS LONDON 1925
Printed by R. & R. Clark, Edinburgh, hand-coloured stencilled illustrations by Curwen.
A2v facing t.p.
[in oval decorative border matching t.p. a woodcut illustration hand-coloured through stencil.]
A3v
THIS EDITION IS LIMITED TO 1250 COPIES PRINTED IN EDINBURGH BY R. & R. CLARK, LTD. THE PICTURES ARE HAND-COLOURED. THE TEXT- PAPER IS DUTCH MOULD-MADE & THE COVER-PAPER IS CHINESE. THIS IS NUMBER [space for serial number].
A-Q4.
[1-4] 5-127 [128].
6" × 3¾", cream laid, watermarked Nonesuch, all edges untrimmed; 10pt. Baskerville; frontispiece + 8 illustrations, some half-page, printed from woodcuts recut by W. M. R. Quick from those of the 1719 edition, based on the original 1697 French publication. and hand-coloured through stencils by the Curwen Press, on A2v and pp.19, 24, 30, 41, 62, 72, 87, 101; decorative lozenges (matching those on t.p.) either side of page numbers or as a foot-line; casing, quarter blue buckram, gold-blocked on spine: ‘MOTHER GOOSE’, boards Chinese tinsel paper, glassine dust-jacket.
p.3
| ¶ Introduction | page 5 |
| ¶ Little Red Riding Hood | page 19 |
| ¶ The Fairy | page 24 |
| ¶ Blue Beard | page 30 |
| ¶ The Sleeping Beauty in the Wood | page 41 |
| ¶ The Master Cat; or, Puss in Boots | page 62 |
| ¶ Cinderilla, or,The Little Glass Slipper | page 72 |
| ¶ Riquet with the Tuft | page 87 |
| ¶ Little Thumb | page 101 |
| ¶ Notes | pages 121-[128] |
| [decorative rule at foot] |
p.[A]4r
Not in Curwen Library or 1963 handlist; added at the suggestion of Douglas Ball and Pat Gilmour.
See Dreyfus 1981 cat. 26 for Quick's woodcuts, board-covering and dust-jacket.
Leicester copy numbered 1210, and lacks dust-jacket.
IMDb
Robin Phillips, 1963, revised 30Dec/2023