The history of Whittington and his cat : how from a poor country boy, destitute of parents or relations, he attained great riches, and was promoted to the high and honorable dignity of Lord Mayor of London.

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.
Includes 11 wood-engravings.
Roman and italic alphabets on t.p. verso.
First and last leaves pasted to wrappers.
Frontispiece above the rhyme, "Sir Richard Whittington behold / In mayor's robes and chain of gold".
Other chapbooks in this series dated ca. 1820, cf. Osborne Coll. Cf. Mansell, cited below as NUC pre-1956.
First sentence: "Dick Whittington was so young when his father and mother died, that he neither knew them nor the place of his birth."
Publisher's advertisements p. [32] (Davis list A).
Imprint also at foot of p. 31.
Frontispiece included in pagination.