Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

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]
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.
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.
Description
16 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original buff or faded yellow wrappers; back wrapper (p. 16) illustrated.
Classification
Department