• Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
Beauty and the Beast
pcb2417
pcb2417
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
  • Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1854]. Variant B. Courtesy of Victoria and Albert Museum, London (60.R Box V (xxiv))
TITLE
Beauty and the Beast.
PUBLISHED
London : George Routledge & Co., [1854].
SERIES
Aunt Mavor's picture books for little readers [second series] : 5
PRICE
6d.
AUTHOR
Crowquill, Alfred (Alfred Henry Forrester) (illustrator)
George Routledge & Co. (publisher)
DESCRIPTION
Size
25x17,5 cm
Format and pagination
8° : 8 ll.
Signatures
A8
Signatures note
1 gathering, sewn, paginated 1-8
Contents
1-8, text and wood-engraved vignettes
Covers
Upper wrapper uniform for the series, printed in black (see pcb2395), with fancy title: "BEAUTY AND THE BEAST."
Lower wrapper uniform for the series (see pcb2395)
Illustrations
8 illustrations, unsigned, printed in black on one side of the sheet only and hand-coloured; text and illustration on the same side of the sheet
Source for attribution
Statement on the title page of the collective volume Aunt Mavor's nursery tales for good little people, gathering all the series' titles: "With one hundred coloured illustrations by Alfred Crowquill" (see 2006 Masaki, I.375ff.)
Source for date
Documents
Advertisements
NOTES
Printed on one side of the sheet only; first and last page pasted to upper and lower wrappers
Title and publication information from upper wrapper, which serves as title page, and from lower wrapper publishers' advertisements
Listed in Routledge's wholesale catalogue of November 1855
PRINTING TECHNIQUES
Hand-coloured
VARIANTS
Variant A
[1854]: on light blue paper
Variant B
[1854]: on orangish paper
BIBLIOGRAPHY
ISFD, 477905
2006 Masaki, I.381-82
COPIES
BL: 12806.g.55(5) (variant A: [1854]; accession stamp dated 17AP55; bound with other titles of the series, fifth title)
NAL-GL: 60.R Box V (xxiv) (variant B: [1854]; Guy Tristram Little Bequest)
TRADE COPIES
Bonython Bookshop: 10845 (on sale on March 2020; not analysed)
DRAWINGS, OBJECTS, DOCUMENTS
Documents
UCL-RKP: RKP 8 (p. 127: "Aunt Mavor 2nd series 12 books [sic] 1854 Nov. 3, 1st edition 2000. 1855 March 13, 2nd edition 2000")
OTHER VERSIONS
Included in
Aunt Mavor's nursery tales for girls. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., 1856
Included in
Aunt Mavor's book of nursery tales. - London ; New York : George Routledge & Co., 1856
Reissued as
Beauty and the Beast. - London : George Routledge & Co., [1857]
PERMALINK
https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2417
CITATION
Francesca Tancini, "Beauty and the Beast". In PiCoBoo, accessed May 19, 2024, https://www.picoboo.eu/catalogue/pcb2417