Accession number
PML 88015.12
Published
York : J. Kendrew, 23, 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: The death and burial of Cock Robin; caption title: Cock Robin..
Wrappers included in pagination.
"The woods provide me food, and show / The goodness of the Lord; / But fruits of life and glory grow / In thy most holy word"--Frontispiece, beneath illustration.
Woodcut on p. 11 shows Cock Robin's coffin inscribed with the date "1805."
Approximate publication date from Gumuchian (cited below).
First sentence: "Who kill'd Cock Robin?"
Includes 14 wood engravings.
Story in verse form.
Cover title: The death and burial of Cock Robin; caption title: Cock Robin..
Wrappers included in pagination.
"The woods provide me food, and show / The goodness of the Lord; / But fruits of life and glory grow / In thy most holy word"--Frontispiece, beneath illustration.
Woodcut on p. 11 shows Cock Robin's coffin inscribed with the date "1805."
Approximate publication date from Gumuchian (cited below).
First sentence: "Who kill'd Cock Robin?"
Includes 14 wood engravings.
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.
Classification
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