Accession number
PML 88016.4
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.
Abbreviated title and imprint in double frame of rules and ornaments on front wrapper.
Includes 12 wood-engraved illustrations.
Frontispiece above the rhyme, "The fields provide me food, and show / The goodness of the Lord : / But fruits of life and glory grow / In thy most holy word" (third stanza from "The Excellency of the Bible"); also, "Praise for creation and providence" (p. 30-31), both from Divine Songs (cf. Davis, cited below).
Bird carrying Cock Robin's coffin on p. 11 shows the date 1805.
"Pizarro and Alonzo" adapted from "The Two Brothers" in Thomas Day's The History of Sanford and Merton (cf. Davis, below).
Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper (Davis Penny Books list A).
Abbreviated title and imprint in double frame of rules and ornaments on front wrapper.
Includes 12 wood-engraved illustrations.
Frontispiece above the rhyme, "The fields provide me food, and show / The goodness of the Lord : / But fruits of life and glory grow / In thy most holy word" (third stanza from "The Excellency of the Bible"); also, "Praise for creation and providence" (p. 30-31), both from Divine Songs (cf. Davis, cited below).
Bird carrying Cock Robin's coffin on p. 11 shows the date 1805.
"Pizarro and Alonzo" adapted from "The Two Brothers" in Thomas Day's The History of Sanford and Merton (cf. Davis, below).
Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper (Davis Penny Books list A).
Description
31 p. : ill. (wood-engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Faded red or rust printed wrappers.
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