Blue Beard ; or The fatal effects of curiosity and disobedience
Subtitle: Illustrated with elegant and appropriate engravings, on copperplate
Contributors: Perrault, Charles, 1628-1703
Publisher: Published and sold wholesale by Wm. Charle, and may be had of all the booksellers.
Published: 1815
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Juvenile poetry; Children's poetry; Picture books for children
Other titles: Blue Beard; Fatal effects of curiosity and disobedience; Bluebeard; There liv'd in a village
Notes: Verse adaptation of Barbe bleue, by Charles Perrault.

Illustrations presumably engraved by William Charles.

Imprint on wrapper reads: Philadelphia : Published and sold wholesale by Wm. Charles, and may be had of all the booksellers, 1814.

"Price, 18 3/4 cents."-- Page [1] of wrapper, between publisher and date.

Heavily illustrated.

Rare Book copy: With hand-colored illustrations, as issued. Autograph on page [2] of wrapper: Louisa Rich[?], Book of Charlton, March 19, 18[?].

Shaw, R.R. American bibliography, 51526

Gift; Frances Henne; 1985.

In printed wrappers; page [1] of wrapper with title and imprint in ornamental border; page [4] of wrapper with publisher's advertisement in ornamental border.

Rare Book copy: In original printed wrappers; housed in floral-patterned cloth enclosure with fore-edge ties, created by a former owner.