Accession number
PML 88015.10
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.
Date from Toronto. Osborne coll., p. 98. Cf. Mansell (cited as NUC pre-1956, below).
"This one ear'd Cat, / Belongs to Jack Sprat"--Front wrapper, beneath illustration.
Cover title; caption title (p. [2]): "Jack Sprat".
First sentence (p. [2]): "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, And so between them both, They lick'd the platter clean; Jack eat all the lean, Joan eat all the fat, The bone they pick'd it clean, then gave it to the cat."
Includes 16 wood engravings.
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
Story in verse form.
Date from Toronto. Osborne coll., p. 98. Cf. Mansell (cited as NUC pre-1956, below).
"This one ear'd Cat, / Belongs to Jack Sprat"--Front wrapper, beneath illustration.
Cover title; caption title (p. [2]): "Jack Sprat".
First sentence (p. [2]): "Jack Sprat could eat no fat, His wife could eat no lean, And so between them both, They lick'd the platter clean; Jack eat all the lean, Joan eat all the fat, The bone they pick'd it clean, then gave it to the cat."
Includes 16 wood engravings.
Imprint also at foot of p. 16.
Story in verse form.
Description
16 p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Original buff or faded yellow pictorial wrappers.
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