Accession number:
PML 88014.8
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.
Lacking publisher's wrappers.
Covers included in the pagination.
At the end is "Economy of time", a dialogue between Jenny and her grandmother, 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'. At the end is 'Economy of time', a dialogue between Jenny and her grandmother." Cf. National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints, cited below.
Includes 11 wood engravings.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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