The story of the three bears : metrically related, with illustrations locating it at Cecil Lodge in September 1831

Date:

1967.

Author:

Mure, Eleanor, 1798 or 1799-1885.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH M973 S76 1967 LOCAL

Publisher:

H.Z. Walck

Abstract:

The oldest existing version of The Three Bears written in verse six years before Robert Southey's prose creation and nineteen years before Goldilocks became the heroine.

Physical Description:

1 volume (unpaged) color illustrations 13 x 17 cm

Notes:

Second copy in Historical Children's Collection has dust jacket. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1967 Walck facsimile reprint of 1831 manuscript from Osborne Collection, two copies with dust jackets

Subjects:

Fairy tales Juvenile poetry, Bears Folklore, Bears, and Fairy tales

Genres/Forms:

Folklore, Juvenile works, and Poetry