1804 Cinderella; or the Glass Slipper

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Original Binding, Very Scarce

This is a very scarce early single volume English language edition of the classic tale; Tabart is known to have printed sixteen editions in 1804 alone, all of which are now very scarce. This is the sixth edition from Tabart, published in the same year as their first.

Illustrated with a hand-coloured copper plate frontispiece, and with one further hand coloured plate. Collated, lacking the third plate referred to by the title page.

Ink inscriptions to verso of front wrap and recto of rear wrap.

With a publisher's advertisement to the verso of the title page.

Jisc lists only three institutionally held copies of this work: eleventh and twelfth editions held by the University of Cambridge, and a fourteenth edition held by the V&A Museum libraries.