The history of a little boy found under a haycock : founded on facts.

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.
Cover and frontispiece included in pagination.
Includes 14 wood engravings, p. 4-16.
"J. Kendrew, printer, York"--At foot of p. 16.
Date from Toronto. Osborne coll., p. 270, which also notes: "an entry in Johnson's day-book in July 1786" regarding payment received for writing this story. Cf. National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints, cited below.
Written by Richard Johnson and published by E. Newbery ca. 1787 (Weedon, M.J.P. Richard Johnson, no. 34); this may be an abridged edition, as Roscoe describes Newbery's edition as having 31 p. (Roscoe, S. Newbery, no. J163).
Authorship of this story is attributed to Richard Johnson based on his day-book. Cf. Davis (cited below); Weedon, M.J.P. Richard Johnson and the successors to John Newbery (The Library, 5th ser., v. 4, no. 1, June 1949, 25-63), no. 34.