McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Children in the wood. London : Booksellers, [between 1780 and 1790]

Publisher:

Booksellers, [between 1780 and 1790]

Notes:

First sentence: "A gentleman of good account, In Norfolk dwelt of late, Who did in honour far surmount, Most men of his estate."
Includes 8 woodcuts.
Undated. Date from publisher's form of name, cf Meriton. Small Books for the Common Man: a Descriptive Bibliography, p. 988.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 4 hand-coloured cuts; 4 black & white cuts; yellow pictorial wrappers; Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Dec/69. $8.50.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 16 x 10 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Ballads, English.
Brothers and sisters -- Juvenile fiction.
Uncles -- Juvenile fiction.
Infanticide -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 18th century

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 B66 C46 1780 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=7229

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_B66_C46_1780