The old old fairy tales / collected and edited by Mrs. Valentine, … ; with original coloured illustrations and numerous woodcuts.
Laura Belinda Charlotte Jewry, Mrs Richard Valentine (1814-1899)
Category
Books
Date
1890 - 1899
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3257512
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, 564 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (8 col.) ; 8vo. Pencil price[?] and code on half-title: "200/1.50 wbt". Provenance: Embossed stamp on front free endpaper: Broughton family crest with motto 'Si je puis' [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century publisher's full red cloth; gilt, black, orange, pink and blue blocked characters from stories on upper board and spine; gilt and black lettering on upper board and spine; light green patterned endpapers (publisher's device).
Makers and roles
Laura Belinda Charlotte Jewry, Mrs Richard Valentine (1814-1899), editor