c1840s? chapbook ADVENTURES OF PUSS IN BOOTS hand-col woodcuts Turner & Fishe

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No reteller. ADVENTURES OF PUSS IN BOOTS . New York and Philadelphia: Turner & Fisher, no date [but after 1836 and probably c. mid 1840s?]. Tall 16mo (4.5 x 7.5") sewn in thin blue pictorial paper wraps but printed on thick paper stock; publisher's ads on the back for many types of "toy books" and alphabets; unpaginated [8pp]; title page decoration and hand-colored woodcut sand seven additional half-page hand-colored cuts. OCLC/Worldcat notes: "Turner & Fisher conducted business in New York 1835-1836 and in Philadelphia 1835-after 1836; cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, p. 332, 342."All the elements suggest a date in the mid 1840s. This imprint may be later, but many of the titles in the publisher's ad on the back that we were able to locate bibliographic entries for have estimated dates of c. 1836 to 1845, and we found few later estimates. This is a lively verse rendition of the key scenes in the classic tale of Puss in Boots: Puss leaving his poor master to seek a fortune, catching partridges and presenting them to the King in the name of Marquis Carabis (i.e. his poor master), catching and presenting presenting rabbits to the King, talking to the reapers to say the fields belonged to the Marquis, visiting the Ogre's castle, standing up to the Ogre turned into a lion, tricking the Ogre to turn in a mouse and killing him, read more

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