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Henry W. Hewet

Best known today for a public-domain version of Cinderella, this little-known 19th-century figure also worked as an engraver, illustrator, and publisher. His surviving record is sparse, which gives his books an old-library kind of mystery.

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Cinderella

Cinderella

by Henry W. Hewet

About the author

Henry W. Hewet is a little-documented American figure active around the 1840s and 1850s. Wikisource identifies him as an American engraver and publisher and notes that he was active during that period.

Project Gutenberg lists Cinderella under his name, and other catalog records connect him with illustration work, including Shakespeare's Plays: With His Life and Homes and Haunts of the Most Eminent British Poets. Taken together, those records suggest a literary career that crossed between writing, illustration, and book production.

Because reliable biographical details about his life are scarce, not much can be confirmed about Hewet beyond his period of activity and the works linked to him. That makes him one of those early book-world personalities who survives more clearly through the volumes he helped create than through a full personal history.