New history of the life and adventures of Tom Thumb : [six lines of verse].
Bibliographic Citation:
New history of the life and adventures of Tom Thumb : [six lines of verse]. New Haven : Published by S. Babcock, 1849.
Contributor:
Babcock, Sidney, 1797?-1884. pbl
Anderson, Alexander, 1775-1870. pbl
Publisher:
Published by S. Babcock, 1849.
Notes:
  • Some wood engravings signed by Alexander Anderson.
  • First sentence: "When I was a little boy, children's books were not quite as plenty, or as cheap, or as good as they are now."
  • Includes 7 woodcuts.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 7 full-page wood engravings by Alexander Anderson. Title-page vignette. Green decorated wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria. B.C. Feb/65. $4.50. Jo Ann Reisler, Vienna, Va. - '98 - $75.00. Given to McGill 2001.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 12 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Children's stories.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Fairy tales.
Genre/Form:
Juvenile literature -- 1849.
Fairy tales -- 1849.
Chapbooks -- 1849.
Chapbooks -- Connecticut -- New Haven -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose
Call Number:
PN970 B3 N4 1849 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.
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=7217
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_B3_N4_1849