Accession number
PML 88016.6
Published
York : Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, ca. 1815-1825.
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.
First and last leaves pasted to wrappers.
Approximate date of 1825 from Osborne, cited below. Gumuchian, cited below, gives date of ca. 1815.
Includes 23 wood-engravings.
Imprint also at foot of p. 31.
Alphabets on t.p. verso.
Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper, Davis Penny Books list C (cited below).
In prose and verse.
First sentence: "An Ape that had twins, like a foolish bad mother, Lov'd one to distraction, but hated the other; Tho' the latter's neglected and kept out of sight, Yet the darling must lie with her every night."
Modified title and imprint on front wrapper in decorative border.
According to Davis (cited below), the fables are adapted from Entertaining Fables for the Instruction of Children (ca. 1790), and Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists (1784); frontispiece verse from Juvenal's 14th Satire translated by John Dryden, Junior.
First and last leaves pasted to wrappers.
Approximate date of 1825 from Osborne, cited below. Gumuchian, cited below, gives date of ca. 1815.
Includes 23 wood-engravings.
Imprint also at foot of p. 31.
Alphabets on t.p. verso.
Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper, Davis Penny Books list C (cited below).
In prose and verse.
First sentence: "An Ape that had twins, like a foolish bad mother, Lov'd one to distraction, but hated the other; Tho' the latter's neglected and kept out of sight, Yet the darling must lie with her every night."
Modified title and imprint on front wrapper in decorative border.
According to Davis (cited below), the fables are adapted from Entertaining Fables for the Instruction of Children (ca. 1790), and Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists (1784); frontispiece verse from Juvenal's 14th Satire translated by John Dryden, Junior.
Description
31 p. : ill. (wood-engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Blue-gray printed wrappers.
Classification
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Department