Beschreibung:

[Lamb, Charles] BEAUTY AND THE BEAST: OR, A ROUGH OUTSIDE WITH A GENTLE HEART. A POETICAL VERSION OF AN ANCIENT TALE. ILLUSTRATED WITH A SERIES OF ENGRAVINGS, AND BEAUTY'S SONG AT HER SPINNING WHEEL, SET TO MUSIC BY MR. WHITAKER. LONDON: PRINTED [BY B. M'MILLAN] FOR M. J. GODWIN, [1813] Small 4to (5 3/16 x 4 1/8 in.; 132 x 105 mm). 8 engraved plates including frontispiece, all hand colored; without the folding sheet of music, some spotting throughout, fore-edge of page 19 slightly frayed without loss. Original printed wrappers, dated 1813 and woodcut "Go, be a beast. - Homer" on lower cover, laid down on boards with contemporary maroon straight-grain half-morocco gilt; extremities worn, some spotting and soiling to boards. In a red cloth drop-box.