The Story of the Three Bears: metrically related, with illustrations locating it at Cecil Lodge in September 1831

The Story of the Three Bears: metrically related, with illustrations locating it at Cecil Lodge in September 1831

Ex-lib markings - book number taped onto spine, stamp on title and publishing pages, pocket ripped out of back end paper. Some pencil scribbles on last page of text.

Small hardcover with dust jacket taped to cover. Fascimile of original manuscript, the first written version of the fairy tale. Also earliest known Candian picture book. Hand-written with watercolors by author. Originally a birthday gift to Mure's nephew Horace Broke in 1831. Published from Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books, Toronto Public Library. Historical and biographical information about text follows manuscript.

Mure, Eleanor, 1798 or 9-1885

Mure, Eleanor, 1798 or 9-1885 (Illustrator)

Toronto: Oxford University Press

1967

unpaged

Fairy Tale