Accession number
PML 88015.3
Published
Colliergate, York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, [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.
Alphabets (p. [4]). with 14 woodcuts.
Includes 14 wood engravings.
Five alphabets (p. [4]) in various fonts.
Front wrapper, frontispiece and t.p. included in pagination.
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
"In books, or work, or healthful play, / Let my first years be past, / That I may give for every day, / some good account of last."--Frontispiece. According to Davis, this is the last stanza of "Against Idleness and Mischief" from Divine Songs (1715). Cf. citation below.
Date from Toronto, Osborne, cited under NUC pre-1956 below.
First sentence: "Two sticks and an apple, Ring the bells at whitechaple."
Alphabets (p. [4]). with 14 woodcuts.
Includes 14 wood engravings.
Five alphabets (p. [4]) in various fonts.
Front wrapper, frontispiece and t.p. included in pagination.
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
"In books, or work, or healthful play, / Let my first years be past, / That I may give for every day, / some good account of last."--Frontispiece. According to Davis, this is the last stanza of "Against Idleness and Mischief" from Divine Songs (1715). Cf. citation below.
Date from Toronto, Osborne, cited under NUC pre-1956 below.
First sentence: "Two sticks and an apple, Ring the bells at whitechaple."
Description
16 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original buff or faded yellow wrappers, illustration on back wrapper.
Classification
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