McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

David Allen : a village tale. London : Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, [between 1845 and 1862]

Alternative Title:

Village tale

Contributor:

Groombridge and Sons.

Publisher:

Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, [between 1845 and 1862]

Notes:

Approximate date established from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c.1800-1870. p. 78
Wood engravings: frontispiece, title-page vignette, text illustrations.
First sentence: "It was a fine spring evening on which a dozen or more village boys were playing and romping on the high road, just in front of the new house which Mr. Graham had built for himself."
Includes 6 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: black & white frontispiece; title-page vignette; 5 cuts in text. 1 of 12 books in chapbook form, previously bound in book form. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Dec/66. $2.00.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 12 x 8 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Boys -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.
Work ethic -- Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Prose Fiction

Call Number:

PN970 G7 D3 1845 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=8222

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_G7_D3_1845