McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Park's nursery tales. London : A. Park, Leonard St. London, [between 1836 and 1863]

Alternative Title:

Nursery tales

Contributor:

Park, Archibald Alexander, publisher.

Publisher:

A. Park, Leonard St. London, [between 1836 and 1863]

Notes:

Undated. Date from publisher's form of name and years of activity at address, cf. P.A.H. Brown. London publishers and printers, p. 145.
First sentence: "Dick was a poor boy, who came to London by a waggon, and got a place in the kitchen of a merchant; but the cook using him bad, he resolved to return to the country again."
Includes 13 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: Blue pictorial wrappers.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 24 x 15 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Fairy tales.
Nursery rhymes.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

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

Chapbook Category:

Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose

Call Number:

PN970 P37 P37 1836 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.

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=7951

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_P37_P37_1836