(CHILDRENS LITERATURE.) [Nicol,George.] The Story of the Three Bears.

FIRST PRINTING IN BOOK FORM (CHILDREN'S LITERATURE.) [Nicol,George.] The Story of the Three Bears. Title vignette and 10 (of 11) illustrations by C. J. engraved by Robert Hart. Oblong 12mo, original pictorial boards, spine with early cloth reinforcement, but now defective, scattered wear; front hinge and gutter of final text leaf reinforced, contemporary inked owner's inscription on half-title. London: Porter & Wright, 1837

rare first edition, and the first printing in book form. It had previously appeared in an 1837 literary journal "The Doctor" edited by Robert Southey. There is also an 1831 verse manuscript illustrated by Eleanor Mure in the Osborne Collection, Toronto Public Library. Schiller, Realms of Childhood 125.