The history of Giles Gingerbread : a little boy who lived upon learning / by Tom Trip ; decorated with cuts.

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.
Abridged chapbook version of: The renowed history of Giles Gingerbread (London : printed for J. Newbery, 1766).
According to Davis (cited below), probably written by John Newbery.
Alphabets on t.p. verso.
"The addition of the alphabets on a page previously blank, the use of the additional imprint, and the improvement of the title-page, indicate that this is probably the later edition" of a chapbook by the same title, also printed and sold by J. Kendrew.--Davis, p. 94.
Frontispiece included in pagination.
First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
Publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper (Davis' list B).
Includes 12 wood-engravings.
Imprint also at foot of p. 31.
Frontispiece shows a man wearing a robe and turban, with the caption "Old Gaffer Gingerbread," above a verse titled "Tom Trip, to his Companions".
Modified title and imprint on front wrapper inside decorative border.
First sentence: "One day as Gaffer Gingerbread was coming from work, he saw little Giles, who was ragged as a colt, getting up behind Sir Toby Thompson's coach; upon which he called to him: here, Giles, come hither to me."
"The boy who knew nothing" (a poem beginning "A boy there was, so wild and gay"), p. 28-30.
"Praise for the gospel" (a poem from Divine Songs (1715)), p. 31.