Accession number
PML 88015.5
Published
York : 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.
Front wrapper included in pagination.
Other chapbooks in this series dated ca. 1820 in Toronto. Osborne Coll. Cf. NUC -pre-1956 cited below.
Includes 16 wood engravings.
"With all the fun, / That he had done. / And how at last he went to France, / To teach great Bonaparte to dance."--Front wrapper.
First line of verse (p. 2): "Tom, Tom, the piper's son, / Stole a pig and away her ran, ... "
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
"Tom, the piper's son" (p. 2-3), followed by two pages of prose (p. 4-5) about the seller of paste pigs and Tom's theft, followed by the nursery rhyme, "Tom he was a piper's son" (p. 6-16).
Cover title.
Front wrapper included in pagination.
Other chapbooks in this series dated ca. 1820 in Toronto. Osborne Coll. Cf. NUC -pre-1956 cited below.
Includes 16 wood engravings.
"With all the fun, / That he had done. / And how at last he went to France, / To teach great Bonaparte to dance."--Front wrapper.
First line of verse (p. 2): "Tom, Tom, the piper's son, / Stole a pig and away her ran, ... "
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
"Tom, the piper's son" (p. 2-3), followed by two pages of prose (p. 4-5) about the seller of paste pigs and Tom's theft, followed by the nursery rhyme, "Tom he was a piper's son" (p. 6-16).
Description
16 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original pictorial yellow wrappers.
Classification
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