Moral tales in verse : calculated to please and instruct young children : embellished with numerous engravings.
Bibliographic Citation:
Moral tales in verse : calculated to please and instruct young children : embellished with numerous engravings. London : Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, no. 10, Newgate-Street, [between 1822 and 1824]
Publisher:
Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., Juvenile Press, no. 10, Newgate-Street, [between 1822 and 1824]
Notes:
  • Wood engravings: frontispiece, illustrations, and title vignette.
  • "Sixpence."
  • Frontispiece included in pagination.
  • Hodgson conducted business at 10 Newgate Street from 1822-1824; cf. Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 91.
  • BM, cited below, dates as 1830.
  • Osborne Coll., cited below, dates as 1825.
  • Publisher's printed brown stiff wrappers; vignette on upper wrapper; publisher's ad, p. [4] of wrappers.
  • First sentence: "I remember, dear patron, those sad gloomy days, When I wander'd forlorn and unknown, When rude was my speech, and unpolish'd my ways, None kindly corrected, nor cheer'd me with praise, But left me in darkness to moan."
  • Includes 34 woodcuts.
  • Contents: A young man's tribute of gratitude to his patron -- An address to Charles -- Sights in the air -- A pious child's reflections on death -- The drum -- Stage-struck -- The impressed sailor -- The watchman -- Mary Walter -- The artillery-man -- The foolish girl -- Edward and the match-woman -- A tale of a tub -- The fight at "The Doe" -- The happy tinker -- The effects of religion -- The impartiality of brute animals -- The light-house -- The soldier's monument -- The priest, and the pastor -- Tom and the bull-dog -- The soldier's life in tent and field -- The storm at night -- The affectionate orphans -- Ignorance of our fate blessing -- The useless finger-post -- The game cock and the looking-glass -- The tavern, not used, but abused -- The grumbling paviour -- Killing time and breaking the sabbath.
  • Citations/References: Osborne Coll., p. 72
  • Citations/References: BM 234:438
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 14 x 9 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Metrical Tales and Other Verse
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.
Copyright:
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Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H634_M6_1822