McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Temptation resisted. London : Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, [between 1857 and 1865]

Contributor:

Dean & Son.

Publisher:

Dean & Son, 11, Ludgate Hill, [between 1857 and 1865]

Notes:

Undated. Date from publisher's form of name and years of activity at address, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 55.
Cover title and imprint.
First sentence: "It was a bright, pleasant afternoon in the first week of June, when two little boys of eight and ten years of age, sprang joyously down the steps of the street door, and waved their hats to their mother, who smiled back a 'good-bye' to them from the parlour window."
Includes 4 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Sheila R. Bourke Collection: 1 of 48 books plus 5 duplicates. Black and white cuts used for more than one title. Pictorial buff wrappers. Duplicates from I. Mackenzie - $2.00. each; the remainder from Laurie Hill Ltd. - $10.00 the lot. Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections, Children's Collection: 1 of 48 books in the series. Black & white cuts used for more than one title. Pictorial buff wrappers.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 12 x 8 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Temptation -- Juvenile fiction.
Children -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Christian life -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

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

Chapbook Category:

Religious and Moral

Call Number:

PN970 D4 D4 1857 no.21 Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's 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=7293

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_D4_D4_1857_no_21_DUP