THE HISTORY OF SLEEPING BEAUTY.

London: Ward & Lock., [c.1860]. First edition thus. Publisher's original colour-printed pictorial yellow card wrappers. Octavo (25 x 16.5cm). 8pp. printed on one side only and mounted on linen. Each page illustrated with a hand-coloured wood engraving by the Dalziel Brothers. Publisher's adverts to the rear cover verso. A very good copy, the binding secure with a little separation to the covers at the foot of the spine, a small chip to the head of the rear cover, and minor wear to the extremities. The contents with scattered foxing are otherwise in very good order. A scarce mid-nineteenth-century edition of Sleeping Beauty, the pages linen-backed and the illustrations hand-coloured. The title forms No. 11 in Ward and Lock's 'The National Nursey Tales' series, which, according to the publisher's advertisement are "handsomely printed, with Coloured Illustrations, price 6d. each, or on Cloth (indestructible), 1s. [as in the present copy]. The attention of the Public is particularly called to this beautiful Series of Children's Books, which are in every respect of a superior character. The drawings are by eminent Artists, and the Engravings by Dalziel Brothers".

Only one institutional copy recorded in Britain according to Library Hub (V&A).