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

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

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Album given to Thackeray's cousin Mary Augusta Thackeray, containing prose "The Awful History of Blue Beard," dated 1833 with pen-and-ink 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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