The history of Sam, the sportsman, and his gun : also, of his wife Joan ; embellished with wood-cuts.

Accession number: 
PML 88015.7
Published: 
York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [ca. 1820]
Description: 
16 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes: 

One of 39 chapbooks bound in 3 volumes (PML 88014-16) with spine title: York chapbooks. 1/2 brown calf; marbled covers and end-papers; original chapbook wrappers bound in; the 3 volumes housed in paper slip case.
Cover title.
Wrappers included in the pagination.
Includes "Economy of time. Grandmother and Jenny" (unillustrated, p. [13]-16).
Date from Toronto. Osborne Coll., p. 96, which also notes: "An extended chapbook version of the rhyme 'There was a little man, and he had a little gun'." Cf. National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints, cited below.
Includes 11 wood engravings.

Binding: 
Original buff or faded yellow wrappers; back wrapper (p. 16) illustrated.
Provenance: 
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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