Nurse Dandlem's little repository of great instruction : containing The surprising adventures of Little Wake Wilful, and his deliverance from the Giant Grumbolumbo / written by the famous Prussian, for the sole amusement of the chickabiddy generation ; em
Bibliographic Citation:
Nurse Dandlem's little repository of great instruction : containing The surprising adventures of Little Wake Wilful, and his deliverance from the Giant Grumbolumbo / written by the famous Prussian, for the sole amusement of the chickabiddy generation ; embellished with copperplates. Glasgow : Published and sold wholesale, by J. Lumsden and Son, [ca. 1815]
Alternative Title:
Little repository of great instruction.
Publisher:
Published and sold wholesale, by J. Lumsden and Son, [ca. 1815]
Notes:
  • Signatures: [A]-B¹².
  • The title page is on the verso of the first free leaf; the frontispiece is on the recto of the next leaf.
  • First sentence: "It was always the care of good Nurse Dandlem to advise her pupils to practise what they learned, and enforce them herself."
  • Includes 8 copperplates.
  • Probable date of publication from Roscoe & Brimmell's Lumsden & Son of Glasgow as cited below.
  • Citations/References: Roscoe and Brimmell. James Lumsden & son of Glasgow, #106.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 12 copperplates; 2 to a page, printed in sanguine; 2 woodcuts in text. Drab wrappers. Gumuchian - #1643. Osborne - p.285. James Lumsden - Roscoe & Brimmell - #106. Victoria Book Shop. New York. July/89. $150.00. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. - '90 - $250.00; Hobbyhorse Books - '95 - $425.00; Aleph-Bet. Valley Cottage, N.Y. - 2000. $1200.00.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 98 x 60 mm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Religious and Moral
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:
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Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8282
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_L86_N8_1815