Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

Plan your visit. 225 Madison Avenue at 36th Street, New York, NY 10016.

The silver penny : for the amusement and instruction of good children.

Accession number
PML 88016.9
Published
York : Printed by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, ca. 1817-1825.
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 pages are pasted down.
Front wrapper has two wood-engraved images: a church with a steeple, and a blacksmith hammering.
Image of a man doing a handstand on horseback with the caption "The antepodean huntsman" on the back wrapper.
This book has the wrappers Davis describes for the ca. 1817 edition (Davis, 48), but the text block described for an undated edition (Davis, 47).
Frontispiece above the rhyme: "This man doth wanter round the town / With fruit, both fresh and sweet, / For those, who do attend their book, / And go both clean and neat".
Roman and italic alphabets and numbers, p. [31].
"Kendrew's Edition"--P. 30.
Contains 28 wood-engravings, including cover images and imprint on p. 30.
Description
30, [1] p. : ill. (wood-engraving) ; 10 cm
Provenance
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
Summary
Main text is an illustrated alphabeth (omits the letters "I" and "V").
Binding
Illustrated yellow-brown wrappers.
Classification
Department