McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Pleasing instructer. Northampton : J. Metcalf, 1837.

Publisher:

J. Metcalf, 1837.

Notes:

First sentence: "See how the little toiling Bee Improves the harvest hours, While summer lasts, in all her cells, Her winter food she stores."
Includes 7 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: title-page vignette, 6 wood cuts. Without wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. March/71. $8.50. Jo Ann Reisler, Vienna, Va. - 2000 - $50.00. Given to McGill 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 87 x 54 mm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Children's poetry, American.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- Massachusetts -- Northampton -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 M48 P5 1837 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=7511

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_M48_P5_1837