Accession number
PML 88016.7
Published
York : Printed and sold J. Kendrew, Colliergate., [ca. 1811-1841]
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.
"Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate."--P. 31.
Dated from Davis.
Includes 12 wood-engravings.
Wrappers included in pagination.
First and last leaves pasted down.
Alphabets and numbers, t.p. verso.
Frontispiece with verse: "This man has got dainty fine cakes / Which he will give away : / To those that learn to read and write, / And mind their Prayers to say."
"The [8] illustrations to Little Red Riding Hood are after cuts by [T.] Bewick" (Library of Congress); "illustrated with Bewick cuts, some of which appear in A New-Year's gift for little masters & misses" (Osborne Coll.); but 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).
"My Mother" (poem by Ann Taylor): p. 29-31.
Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper, Davis Penny Books list B.
"Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate."--P. 31.
Dated from Davis.
Includes 12 wood-engravings.
Wrappers included in pagination.
First and last leaves pasted down.
Alphabets and numbers, t.p. verso.
Frontispiece with verse: "This man has got dainty fine cakes / Which he will give away : / To those that learn to read and write, / And mind their Prayers to say."
"The [8] illustrations to Little Red Riding Hood are after cuts by [T.] Bewick" (Library of Congress); "illustrated with Bewick cuts, some of which appear in A New-Year's gift for little masters & misses" (Osborne Coll.); but 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).
"My Mother" (poem by Ann Taylor): p. 29-31.
Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper, Davis Penny Books list B.
Description
31 p. : ill. (wood-engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Binding
Faded red or rust printed wrappers.
Classification
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