The story of the three bears.
Publisher: Oxford U. P.
Published: 1967
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Stories in rhyme.; Bears -- Poetry.
Other titles: Three bears.
Description: 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.
Notes: Facsim. of a MS. in the Osborne Collection of Early Children's Books in the Toronto Public Library.
Original t.p. reads: The story of the three bears, metrically related, with illustrations locating it at Cecil Lodge in September 1831, by Eleanor Mure.