McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

My flower-pot. Concord, N.H. : Rufus Merrill, [1848?]

Contributor:

Merrill, Rufus, 1803-1891, publisher.

Publisher:

Rufus Merrill, [1848?]

Notes:

In buff printed wrappers, with publisher's advertisement on lower cover.
First sentence: "There is beauty in flowers When kissed by the showers That fall in the bowers Of gardens so fair, When music is telling In notes that are swelling, And love is excelling Aloft in the air."
Includes 15 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 12 woodcuts. Buff pictorial wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Feb/66. $5.00. Victoria Book Shop. New York - '82 - $25.00. Given to McGill 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 10 x 7 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Flowers in literature.
Flowers -- Juvenile poetry.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- New Hampshire -- Concord -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 M477 M9 1848 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=7506

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_M477_M9_1848