McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Busy Ben and idle Isaac. London : Dean & Son, Threadneedle Street, [between 1847 and 1854]

Contributor:

Dean & Son, publisher.

Publisher:

Dean & Son, Threadneedle Street, [between 1847 and 1854]

Notes:

Title, imprint and series statements from front wrapper.
Undated. Date range from: Brown, P.A.H. London publishers and printers, p. 55.
First sentence: "In a very pretty village, there once lived two boys, named Benjamin and Isaac."
Includes 13 woodcuts.
Pub. buff pictorial wrappers with first and last leaves pasted to wrappers and publisher's advertisements on rear wrapper.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: buff pictorial wrappers. 11 black & white cuts in text. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Nov/69. $7.50.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 16 x 11 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Work ethic -- Juvenile fiction.
Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks, English.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Religious and Moral

Call Number:

PN970 D4 B8 1847 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=7261

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_D4_B8_1847