Old Dame Trot and her comical cat.
Bibliographic Citation:
Old Dame Trot and her comical cat. Otley : Printed by William Walker, [between 1813 and 1837]
Alternative Title:
Dame Trot and her cat
Contributor:
Walker, William, fl. 1810-1875. prt
Publisher:
Printed by William Walker, [between 1813 and 1837]
Notes:
  • Undated. William Walker has trading dates from 1813 to 1837, cf. The British Book Trade Index WWW site.
  • Woodcut illustrations are stencil-colored.
  • In verse.
  • First sentence: "The Old Dame went to Brook-Green Fair, And Puss accompanied her there; When they arrived upon the ground, Great was the noise which did abound; Music and dancing had begun, The Fool was striving to make fun; 'Look yonder, Tib,' the Old Woman said, 'The Fool is dancing with the maid!'"
  • Includes 12 woodcuts.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: hand-coloured cuts on each page. Hand-coloured pictorial wrappers, included in pagination. Children's Books of Yesterday - Muir - #290. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Dec/65. $8.50.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 19 x 11 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Cats -- Juvenile poetry.
Nursery rhymes.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- England -- Otley (West Yorkshire) -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Nursery Rhymes
Call Number:
PN970 W3 O4 1813 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.
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=7590
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_W3_O4_1813