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The History of little Tom Tucker.

Accession number
PML 88015.2
Published
York : J. Kendrew, Printer, [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.
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
Includes 16 wood engravings.
"This is little Tom Tucker / That sang for his Supper"--Front wrapper, beneath illustration.
Story in verse form.
Approximate date from Toronto; Osborne, cited below under NUC pre-1956.
First sentence: "Little Tom Tucker, Sing for your supper, What shall I sing for?"
Includes 16 woodcuts; p. 2, priest with umbrella (no text).
Description
16 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original buff or faded yellow pictorial wrappers.
Classification
Department