McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

The history of Goody Two-Shoes. Derby : Printed by and for Thomas Richardson, Friar-Gate, [ca. 1830?]

Publisher:

Printed by and for Thomas Richardson, Friar-Gate, [ca. 1830?]

Notes:

Goody Two-Shoes originally published in 1765.--Cf. Carpenter's The Oxford companion to children's literature.
Pagination includes front cover and inside of back cover.
Title-page vignette.
Frontispiece apparently signed J. S.
First sentence: "It will be readily understood by our young readers, that the real name of the little girl who is the heroine of this story was not Goody Two-Shoes, but Margery Meanwell."
Includes 15 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: frontispiece; woodcuts on upper wrapper and title page; 12 woodcuts in text. Initialled in block "J.S." Yellow pictorial wrappers. Justin Schiller. New York. 1979. $35.00.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 14 x 9 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- Derby -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Prose Fiction

Call Number:

PN970 R53 H5 1830 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=8300

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_R53_H5_1830