The Pentamerone, or, The story of stories :fun for the little ones.
Giambattista Basile (1575-1632)
Category
Books
Date
1848
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Sudbury Hall Museum of Childhood, Derbyshire
NT 3220390
Summary
Bibliographic description
xvi,iii-iv,[2], 404p., plates : ill. ; 8vo. (18cm.) Provenance: Nineteenth-century monogram bookplate of George John Warren Vernon, 5th Baron Vernon (1803 –1866), displaying WV intertwined on a background of diagonal bars and floral pattern under a baron's coronet. Motto: Vernon semper viret. Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter green cloth on marbled paper (resembling tree calf). Lettered direct in gilt "Basile, Pentamerone".
Makers and roles
Giambattista Basile (1575-1632) George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878) John Edward Taylor (fl.1840-1855)