History of Whittington and his cat.
Bibliographic Citation:
History of Whittington and his cat. Edinburgh : James Clarke and Co., [between 1824 and 1844]
Publisher:
James Clarke and Co., [between 1824 and 1844]
Notes:
  • Cover title.
  • Undated. Date range from trading dates of James Clarke and Co., cf. National Library of Scotland, Scottish Book Trade Index WWW site.
  • First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
  • At head of wrapper: "14."
  • First sentence: "In the reign of King Edward the Third, there was born in a village in Yorkshire, a little boy, called Dick Whittington, whose father and mother died when he was so very young, that he remembered nothing at all about them, and he was left a helpless little fellow."
  • Includes 4 woodcuts.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collection: bound with The house that Jack built. Edinburgh: James Clarke and Co.,[between 1824 and 1844]. Bound together subsequent to publication with 9 other chapbooks, with binder's spine title: Chap books. Yellow pictorial paper wrappers.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 11 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Whittington, Richard, -- d. 1423.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Edinburgh -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose
Call Number:
PN970 C53 H68 1824 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=7854
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_C53_H68_1824_000903752