Accession number
PML 88014.14
Creator
Wordsworth, William, 1770-1850.
Published
York : Printed by J. Kendrew, 23 Colliergate [ca. 1820]
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.
On cover: Kendrew's edition of We are seven ["Kendrew's edition" within wood engraving].
Cover and frontispiece included in pagination.
Includes 14 wood engravings.
"J. Kendrew, printer, York"--P. 15.
According to Davis (cited below), this poem by William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads (1798) contains some variants from the original.
Engravings on p. 6, 11 and 14 are the same designs found in Thomas Hugo's Bewick Woodcuts, respectively, 393, 395 and 392, which also appeared in A New Year's Gift (1777) and in The Entertaining Story of Little Red Riding Hood, cf. Davis.
Date from Toronto. Osborne coll., p. 87, which also notes: "Some of the illustrations are Bewick woodcuts which appeared in A New Year's gift and ... also ... The entertaining story of Little Red Riding Hood." Cf. National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints, cited below.
On cover: Kendrew's edition of We are seven ["Kendrew's edition" within wood engraving].
Cover and frontispiece included in pagination.
Includes 14 wood engravings.
"J. Kendrew, printer, York"--P. 15.
According to Davis (cited below), this poem by William Wordsworth from Lyrical Ballads (1798) contains some variants from the original.
Engravings on p. 6, 11 and 14 are the same designs found in Thomas Hugo's Bewick Woodcuts, respectively, 393, 395 and 392, which also appeared in A New Year's Gift (1777) and in The Entertaining Story of Little Red Riding Hood, cf. Davis.
Date from Toronto. Osborne coll., p. 87, which also notes: "Some of the illustrations are Bewick woodcuts which appeared in A New Year's gift and ... also ... The entertaining story of Little Red Riding Hood." Cf. National Union Catalog, pre-1956 imprints, cited below.
Description
15 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original yellow pictorial wrappers.
Classification
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