Blue-Beard: A Contribution to History and Folk-Lore, Being the History of Gilles de Retz of Brittany, France, Who Was Executed at Nantes in 1440 A.D. and Who Was the Original of Blue-Beard in The Tales of Mother Goose

New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. Very Good/Very Good -. New York & London: G.P. Putnam's Sons / The Knickerbocker Press, 1899. First Edition. Octavo (22cm); publisher's dust jacket with black lettering; boards in brown cloth with gilt lettering; [xvi],212pp; 4 plates including frontis with tissue guard. Jacket torn along front joint and across spine, with more shallow chips and tears along edges and moderate toning and smudging to surface. Boards bumped lightly at corners and spine ends. Binding sound and pages unmarked. Uncommon in dust jacket.