McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

The romance of Indian history, or, Thrilling incidents in the early settlement of America. New York : Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William Street, [between 1856 and 1866?]

Alternative Title:

Thrilling incidents in the early settlement of America
Adam Poe and Bigfoot.

Contributor:

Chapman, J. G. (John Gadsby), 1808-1889, ill.
Kiggins & Kellogg, publisher.

Publisher:

Kiggins & Kellogg, 123 & 125 William Street, [between 1856 and 1866?]

Notes:

Kiggins & Kellogg was located at 123 & 125 William St., New York, between 1856 and 1866. (New York city directories list the firm at 128 William St. between 1857 and 1859).
"Redfield's toy books, beautifully illustrated from designs by Chapman [i.e. John Gadsby Chapman] ... Fourth series"--Series title and numbered list: p. [4] of wrapper.
Publisher's advertisements: p. [2-3] of wrapper.
First sentence: "My young readers, if they have studied the early history of their country, may have read of the famous expedition undertaken, in 1696, by the governor-general of New France (as the French settlement on our shores was then called), against the confederated Five Nations of New York; an expedition which, though it carried with it all the pomp and circumstance of European warfare into their wild-wood haunts, was attended with no adequate results, and had but a momentary effect in quelling the spirit of the tameless Indian."
Includes 9 woodcuts.
Contents: Kiodago and his Christian wife -- Adam Poe and Bigfoot.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections:black & white frontispiece; title-page vignette; 2 cuts - one by Howland; 4 full-page black & white illustrations. Blue pictorial wrappers by Wallin. I. mackenzie. Montreal, May/65. $7.50. Given to McGill 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 15 x 10 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Indians of North America -- History -- Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Juvenile literature -- New York (State) -- New York -- 1856.
Chapbooks -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Travel and Adventure

Call Number:

PN970 K5 R6 1856 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=7472

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_K5_R6_1856