Accession number
PML 88014.3
Published
York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, 1810? or later.
Credit line
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.
Frontispiece and t.p. included in pagination; first and last leaves pasted to wrappers.
Eleven wood engravings.
"Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York."--Outside rear wrapper.
Davis's bibliography of Kendrew's chapbooks describes a variant version of this edition which includes a woodcut and the verse Learning to go alone on p. 1, and a woodcut with the riddle A pretty thing on the rear wrapper, which this edition lacks. Cf. Kendrew of York. Roger Davis. Wetherby, West Yorkshire : The Elmete Press, 1988, p. 105.
According to Davis, The little dog was originally published in Evenings at home by John Aikin and Anna Leatitia Barbauld (1792-1796), and The history of a little boy was written by Richard Johnson (1786).
Davis claims (p. 106) that the illustrations on p. 24, 25, 27 and 28 are from the same blocks as "The history of a little boy found under an haycocck" (PML 88014.13), p. 4, 5, 9 and 11; p. 32 from the same block as "The new riddle book" (PML 88014.6), p. 4.
Frontispiece and t.p. included in pagination; first and last leaves pasted to wrappers.
Eleven wood engravings.
"Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York."--Outside rear wrapper.
Davis's bibliography of Kendrew's chapbooks describes a variant version of this edition which includes a woodcut and the verse Learning to go alone on p. 1, and a woodcut with the riddle A pretty thing on the rear wrapper, which this edition lacks. Cf. Kendrew of York. Roger Davis. Wetherby, West Yorkshire : The Elmete Press, 1988, p. 105.
According to Davis, The little dog was originally published in Evenings at home by John Aikin and Anna Leatitia Barbauld (1792-1796), and The history of a little boy was written by Richard Johnson (1786).
Davis claims (p. 106) that the illustrations on p. 24, 25, 27 and 28 are from the same blocks as "The history of a little boy found under an haycocck" (PML 88014.13), p. 4, 5, 9 and 11; p. 32 from the same block as "The new riddle book" (PML 88014.6), p. 4.
Description
31 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original printed yellow wrappers.
Classification
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