Bibliographic Citation:
Peep into a school. London : 164, Piccadilly, Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row ; [between 1847 and 1849] ([London] : Benjamin Pardon)
Alternative Title:
Peep into a school room
Contributor:
Publisher:
Religious Tract Society, 56, Paternoster Row ; [between 1847 and 1849]
Notes:
- Cover title.
- Printed pink paper wrappers with vignette on front cover and poem on back.
- First page bears distinct signature designation: Q.
- First sentence: "Which would cause the most surprise--for a number of little Arab boys to see a nice English school-room, with the children clean and well-dressed learning their useful lessons, or for some English children to take a peep into one of the noisy schools of the olive-coloured children of the East?"
- Includes 1 woodcuts.
- Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: One of 31 volumes purchased in a box titled "Little library," which is unlikely to be the chapbook's original container. Adelphi Book Shop. Victoria, B.C. Feb/73. $35.00.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 91 x 64 mm.
Language:
English
Genre/Form:
Chapbook Category:
Religious and Moral
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=7547
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_R4_P4_1847