c1870. George Routledge. First edition.

'The Blue Beard Picture Book containing Blue Beard, Little Red Riding Hood, Jack and the Bean-stalk, Baby's own A B C with thirty-two pages of illustrations by Walter Crane printed in colours by Edmund Evans.'

This copy is museum-quality with super examples of Crane and Evans' work. 

The cover is not original and has served to protect what were usually issued as soft cover editions. The first (and biggest fault) is that there are only 30 of the 32 images. Pages 4 and 5 from the Blue Beard story are missing. All the rest of the picture pages are present.

The second fault (and relatively minor) is a tape mend - last picture.

A rare book.