The months and the seasons, or, A picture of the year / by J. Bishop ; embellished with six coloured engravings.
Bibliographic Citation:
Bishop, James, 19th cent. The months and the seasons, or, A picture of the year / by J. Bishop ; embellished with six coloured engravings. London : Dean and Munday, Threadneedle-Street : A.K. Newman and Co., Leadenhall-Street, [183-?]
Alternative Title:
Picture of the year
Creator:
Bishop, James, 19th cent.
Contributor:
Dean & Munday. pbl
A.K. Newman & Co. pbl
Publisher:
Dean and Munday, Threadneedle-Street : [183-?]
Notes:
  • Cover title reads: "...with five coloured engravings."
  • Date inferred from reference to another similar work of the author by the same publisher; cf. Gumuchian, 727.
  • Hand-colored illustrations.
  • First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
  • Publisher's ad, p. [4] of wrappers.
  • First sentence: "When January bids the days unfold, The frost and snow increase the cold; But new-year's day and twelfth-cake night To young and old still yield delight."
  • Includes 7 woodcuts.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: hand-coloured frontispiece and title page vignette; green pictorial wrappers.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 14 x 11 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Seasons -- Juvenile literature.
Natural history -- Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Geographical Description, Local History and Natural History
Call Number:
PN970 D43 M6 1830z Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's 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=7258
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_D43_M6_1830z