Mother Bunch's fairy tales : for the amusement of all little masters and misses. Hodgon's Juvenile library
Bibliographic Citation:
Mother Bunch's fairy tales : for the amusement of all little masters and misses. London : Orlando Hodgson, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, [between 1832 and 1835]
Alternative Title:
Fairy tales
Contributor:
Publisher:
Orlando Hodgson, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, [between 1832 and 1835]
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. 91.
  • On cover: With xylographic embellishments.
  • First and last leaves pasted-down to wrappers.
  • First sentence: "A certain king had three sons; but being mistrustful that they had formed a design to deprive him of his crown, he called them one day into his closet, and spoke to them as follows: 'My sons, I am now cometo a great age, and therefore intend to resign my crown to one of you; but I require some proof to determine which is the most worthy; and I promise, that he who shall bring me the most beautiful little dog, shall take possession of my throne.'"
  • Includes 15 woodcuts.
  • Contents: Story of Prince Lupin -- The story of the Princess Frutilla, as related by herself -- The story of the yellow dwarf -- The pigeon and dove.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: buff wrappers; frontispiece with two woodcuts from The yellow dwarf.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 14 x 9 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose
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:
All images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. For information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.
Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7404
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H63_M6_1832