McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

The twelve months of the year; : with a picture for each month. : Adapted to northern latitudes. Portland [Me.]: Bailey & Noyes., [not before 1860?]

Contributor:

Bailey & Noyes, publisher.

Publisher:

Bailey & Noyes., [not before 1860?]

Notes:

At head of wrapper: 9.
According to extant directories, Bailey & Noyes published in Portland between 1860 and at least 1875.
First sentence: "Should you like to read something about the months of the year?"
Includes 15 woodcuts.
In printed wrapper.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: wood engraved cuts on each page. Blue pictorial wrappers. Rosina Fontein. Montreal. Oct/88. $25.00. Given to McGill 2001. Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: bound with The two goats and the sick monkey. Portland [Me.]:Bailey & Noyes,[not before 1860?]. Bound together subsequent to publication with 11 other chapbooks; pink pictorial wrappers; bound in brown calf, gilt lettering. I. Mackenzie. Montreal. Feb/59. $27.50. Jo Ann Reisler, Vienna, Virginia - '91 - $275.00. Given to McGill summer 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 95 mm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Months.
Zodiac.
Natural theology.
Children -- Conduct of life.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Juvenile literature -- 1860.
Chapbooks -- Maine -- Portland -- 19th century
Printed wrappers (Binding)
Relief prints.
Bookplates (Provenance)
Boxed sets (Publishing)
Chapbooks -- 1860.

Chapbook Category:

Books of Instruction

Call Number:

PN970 B35 T9 1860z Rare Books/Special Collections - Sheila R. Bourke Collection

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Sponsor:

The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7209

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_B35_T9_1860z