A visit to grandpapa / by Mrs. Sherwood.
Bibliographic Citation:
Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha), 1775-1851. A visit to grandpapa / by Mrs. Sherwood. London : Houlston and Wright, 65, Paternoster Row, [between 1857 and 1869] ([London] : Richard Clay, Printer)
Creator:
Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha), 1775-1851.
Contributor:
Houlston and Wright. pbl
Publisher:
Houlston and Wright, 65, Paternoster Row, [between 1857 and 1869]
Notes:
  • Cover title.
  • "New edition"--t.p.
  • Publisher on t.p.: Houlston and Stoneman.
  • Undated. Dates from Houlston and Wright's years of activity at address; cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 93.
  • Wrappers included in pagination.
  • First and last leaves pasted-down to wrappers.
  • First sentence: "It was in the month of June, when the strawberries were ripe, and the birds sang, that a letter came from grandpapa to invite Robert and Joseph, the two little sons of Mr. Seward, to spend a day at Westfield, where the old gentleman lived with his good wife in a very neat and beautiful home."
  • Includes 9 woodcuts.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: pink pictorial wrappers; black & white frontispiece, title page vignette, 6 woodcuts interspersed with text.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 11 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Brothers -- Juvenile fiction.
Grandparents -- Juvenile fiction.
Obedience -- Juvenile fiction.
Right and wrong -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Religious and Moral
Call Number:
PN970 H6857 V5 1857 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.
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=7407
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H6857_V5_1857