Puss in boots, and the Marquis of Carabas

Date:

1845.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH P987 I5 1845 LOCAL

Publisher:

D. Appleton & Co. ;

Physical Description:

62 pages, 1, 12 leaves of plates : frontispiece, illustrations ; 17 cm

Notes:

Library's copy has embossed, illustrated front and back covers with ornamental borders surrounding illustration. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

mbrown collection; 1845 Appleton imprint, very loosely 'translated' from one (the Tieck version not the Perrault version) of the four German texts (original or translated) that appeared in Das Märchen vom gestiefelten Kater, in den Bearbeitungen von Straparola, Basile, Perrault und Ludwig Tieck (1843); in this Appleton edition the twelve plates from the German edition have been re-engraved by [Benson John] Lossing; this copy is missing pages 23-26, and the narrative on the first 22 pages does not dovetail well with the following material; front cover design stamped in gold on [much faded and browned] green cloth; rear cover blind stamped with same design

Subjects:

Children's stories, Children's poetry, Nursery rhymes, Children Conduct of life Juvenile literature, Children Conduct of life, Children's poetry, Children's stories, and Nursery rhymes

Genres/Forms:

Juvenile works