The awful history of Blue Beard : manuscript, 1833-1842.

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The awful history of Blue Beard : manuscript, 1833-1842.

Album given to Thackeray's cousin Mary Augusta Thackeray, containing prose "The Awful History of Blue Beard," dated 1833 with pen drawings by Thackeray. Also illustrated with engraved plates cut out and pasted in the album. Together with poetic inscriptions and notes in a different hand, dated 1841-1842. This album is housed together in a slipcase with an original watercolor drawing by Thackeray "A Portrait of Mary Augusta aged 10 months," undated and another miniature album (7 x 6 cm.) signed "Mary Augusta Thackeray, The Reward of Good Conduct, March 6, 1836," containing various inscriptions with engraved plates cut out and pasted in the album.

1 v. (8 p.) : ill. ; 12 x 10 cm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7607610

Princeton University Library

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