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.
Frontispiece and last leaf are pasted on inside of covers.
"Here you may see what's very rare, The world turn'd upside down; A tree and castle in the air, A man walk on his crown."--frontispiece.
Title page has image with the caption: "Tailor riding a goose".
Alphabets on t.p. verso.
"Penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York"--Back wrapper (Davis Penny Books list A). Publisher's advertisement also on p. 30: "Little Folks may be supplied with a great / deal of Little Books".
First sentence: "To see a butcher kill a hog, / is no news; / But to see a hare run after a dog, / is strange indeed!"
Includes 29 wood-engravings.
Cover with modified title and imprint in ornamental border.
Imprint also on p. [31].
In verse form.
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 world turned upside down, or, no news, and strange news.
Accession number:
PML 88016.10
Published:
York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [1820?]
Description:
30, [2] p. : ill. (wood engraving) ; 10 cm
Credit:
Gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1991.
Notes:
Binding:
Buff or faded brown wrappers.
Provenance:
From the library of Julia P. Wightman.
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