Bluebeard
Contributors: Evans, Edmund, 1826-1905, engraver
Series: Walter Crane's toy books. New series; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood; Routledge's new sixpenny toy books -- 113.; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Children's Literature and Childhood
Publisher: George Routledge & Sons
Published: 1875
Place of publication: London]
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's poetry, English
Other titles: Blue Beard; Bluebeard. English.
Notes: In verse, beginning "Once on a time there lived a man hated by all he knew."

Cover title; printer from back cover.

Illustrations and cover design by Walter Crane.

Dated 1875 in Spencer, Isobel Walter Crane (London, 1975), page 202; Massé ("Blue-Beard")--suggests 1873-4, Osborne Coll. ("Blue Beard") gives 1873; listed in English Catalogue, III, page 110, with sixpenny toy books 111-116, as "1874-5."

Consists of 4 bifolia printed on one side, chromoxylographs with letterpress, saddle stitched in col. pictorial stiff paper wrapper; leaves 1 and 8 pasted down to inside of wrapper.

Wrapper: Printed in yellow, red, and black on light yellow; publisher's advertisement on back cover: "Routledge's new sixpenny toy books. Beautifully printed ... Dalziel Brothers", nos. 37-115 (with gaps)--in a single list; Evans's imprint at foot. Identical to wrapper on Little Red Riding Hood (no. 111).

Reproduction of the original from the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida.