McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

The adventures of Nibble, a discontented mouse. London : THOs. Dean and Co., Threadneedle Street, [between 1847 and 1854]

Alternative Title:

Young Nibble, the discontented mouse

Contributor:

Dean & Co. publisher.

Publisher:

THOs. Dean and Co., Threadneedle Street, [between 1847 and 1854]

Notes:

"Price Three-Pence, Coloured."--Front wrapper.
Half page colored engravings captioned with quatrains in rhyme.
Date range from: Brown, P.A.H. London publishers and printers, p. 55.
Wrappers included in pagination.
First sentence: "Young Nibble, who lived in a gentleman's house, Thus said to himself, 'Were I field mouse, I should then have more freedom:' so meeting one day With the mouse of a farmer, he scampered away."
Includes 11 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections: publisher's buff pictorial wrappers with first and last leaves pasted to interior wrappers and publisher's list for 'Children's original toy books' on rear wrapper.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 16 x 12 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Contentment -- Juvenile poetry.
Conduct of life -- Juvenile poetry.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 D4 Y6 1847 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.

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7372

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_D4_Y6_1847