John Williams, or The sailor boy.
Bibliographic Citation:
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887. John Williams, or The sailor boy. Boston : Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street, 1827 (Boston : Isaac R. Butts & Co. printers)
Creator:
Dix, Dorothea Lynde, 1802-1887.
Contributor:
Hartwell, Alonzo, 1805-1873, engraver.
Bowles and Dearborn, publisher.
Isaac R. Butts and Co. printer.
Publisher:
Bowles and Dearborn, 72 Washington Street, 1827
Notes:
  • By Dorothea Lynde Dix.
  • Copyright 1827 by Bowles & Dearborn.
  • Pages 4-34 also numbered 62-92.
  • In printed wrapper.
  • Wrapper illustratation signed "H" (i.e., Alonzo Hartwell?).
  • First sentence: "It was a severely cold morning in January, which succeeded a heavy fall of snow through the night, five winters ago, that I remarked from my parlour window, a child lingering round the gateway; he was apparently ten or eleven years of age, and miserably clad in tattered garments, that seemed ill calculated to exclude the cold."
  • Includes 3 woodcuts.
  • Citations/References: Shoemaker 29365
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: woodcut on title-page. Buff card covers. Woodcut on front cover; woodcut on back cover of Bowles & Dearborn's Shop. Rosina Fontein. Montreal. Oct/81. 4$2.50. Given to McGill 2001.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 15 x 10 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Children's stories.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Temperance -- Juvenile fiction.
Seafaring life -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Juvenile literature -- 1827.
Printed wrappers (Binding)
Relief prints.
Chapbooks -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Religious and Moral
Call Number:
PN970 B69 J6 1827 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=7231
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_B69_J6_1827