Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. To find similar items, select the checkboxes next to the characteristics you are interested in, then select the 'Find similar' button.Ĭuriosities and wonders Chapbooks printed in Scotland Description The physical item used to create this digital version is out of copyrightĬinderella (Legendary character).Page consists of a one-page advertisment for other titles in this, and other series.
Glasgow : Printed for the booksellers, 1852. History of Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper Description The Hockliffe Collection possesses two further, probably contemporary versions of Cinderella: 0012 and (as part of a collection of Mother Goose's Tales: 0031.įor more on Cinderalla see Warner 1995, 201-217, and Opie 1980.Context Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper > (1) As the text makes clear, Cinderella's saviour was a godmother first and foremost, and a fairy only incidentally ( p.14). It seems likely that Nesbit's rather sober portrait of Cinderella's fairy godmother - she looks more a governess than a fairy ( pp.16-17) - reflects the wariness of introducing fantasy and the supernatural into children's literature which was still felt in the first two or three decades of the nineteenth century. p.10 and p.31), suggesting a publication date of c.1820, which would correspond with the middle of his career. He has presented the characters of Cinderella in full Regency dress (e.g. Charlton Nesbit (1775-1838) had been apprenticed to Thomas Bewick before moving to London in 1799 and establishing himself as a prominent book illustrator. What delights most, though, are the small-scale, 'elegant engravings on wood', produced, as the title-page boasts, 'by Nesbit'. The text which appears here is much fuller, and more faithful to Perrault, than that offered in many other contemporary chapbook versions of the tale (e.g. Perrault first published 'Cinderella' as one of his Histoires ou contes du temps passé in 1697 they were first translated into English, as Histories, or tales of past times, in 1729įrontispiece plus 11 wood-cuts ('by Nesbit') 0013: Charles Perrault, Cinderella or, The Little Glass Slipper Author:
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