McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

The pigeon & dove. The history of Betsey Harlow : with a beautiful engraving. London : Orlando Hodgson, 10, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, [between 1832 and 1835]

Alternative Title:

Pigeon and dove
History of Betsey Harlow.

Contributor:

Hodgson, Orlando. pbl

Publisher:

Orlando Hodgson, 10, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield, [between 1832 and 1835]

Notes:

Approximate dates based on publisher's address, established from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 91.
"With coloured plates and gilt edges."
First sentence: "The queen of the country of Deserts, having lost the king her husband, and finding herself to draw nigh her end, with grief entreated her old friend, the Sovereign Fairy, to take under her care her only child."
Includes 1 woodcut.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: hand-coloured frontispiece; yellow decorated wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Nov/69. $8.50.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 97 x 63 mm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Love -- Juvenile poetry.
Constancy -- Juvenile poetry.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Fairy tales.
Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose

Call Number:

PN970 H63 P5 1832 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=7405

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_H63_P5_1832