McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

The story of Peter Lawley. London : Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, [between 1845 and 1862]

Contributor:

Groombridge and Sons.

Publisher:

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

Notes:

Approximate dates established from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 78.
Series from lower wrapper.
"Two pence"--At foot of upper wrapper.
Wood engravings: frontispiece, title vignette, and illustrations.
Frontis. included in pagination.
First sentence: "About twenty-five years ago, a stranger going through a street in the outskirts of the large and busy town of Birminham, would have heard the noise of hammers in almost every house."
Includes 5 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: black & white frontispiece & title-page vignette & cuts. 1 of 12 books in chapbook form, previously bound in book form. Self wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Dec/66. $2.00.

Physical Description:

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

Language:

English

Subject:

Nail makers -- Juvenile literature.
Locksmiths -- Juvenile literature.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- [place] -- [century]

Chapbook Category:

Prose Fiction

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=8227

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_G7_S8_1845