Accession number
PML 88016.5
Published
York: : Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate., [182-?]
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.
According to F.J. Harvey Darton (Children's books in England, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 74, quoting Kendrew's grandson): "The woodcuts for [Kendrew's] publications were done freshly in York itself, by 'Mr Carrall, a Celebrated Wood Cutter'" (i.e. Michael William Carrall, engraver and printer at York).
Frontispiece above "Tom Thumb's Maxim in Trade and Politics".
Includes 7 wood-engravings.
Alphabets on t.p. verso.
First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [32], Davis Penny Books list A (21 titles, ending with Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe).
Tom Thumb first written ca. 1621 by Richard Johnson.
Verse about Tommy Tag on p. 31.
Title and imprint repeated on front wrapper.
According to Davis (cited below), this is a later edition of the same chapbook printed by Kendrew which bore misprints.
According to F.J. Harvey Darton (Children's books in England, 3rd ed. 1982, p. 74, quoting Kendrew's grandson): "The woodcuts for [Kendrew's] publications were done freshly in York itself, by 'Mr Carrall, a Celebrated Wood Cutter'" (i.e. Michael William Carrall, engraver and printer at York).
Frontispiece above "Tom Thumb's Maxim in Trade and Politics".
Includes 7 wood-engravings.
Alphabets on t.p. verso.
First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
Publisher's advertisements on p. [32], Davis Penny Books list A (21 titles, ending with Life and adventures of Robinson Crusoe).
Tom Thumb first written ca. 1621 by Richard Johnson.
Verse about Tommy Tag on p. 31.
Title and imprint repeated on front wrapper.
According to Davis (cited below), this is a later edition of the same chapbook printed by Kendrew which bore misprints.
Description
31, [1] p. : ill. (wood-engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Summary
Prose account of the life and deeds of Tom Thumb.
Binding
In faded red or rust printed wrapper.
Classification
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Department