Park's Tom Thumb.
Bibliographic Citation:
Park's Tom Thumb. London : A. Park, Leonard St. London, [between 1836 and 1863]
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.
  • Cover title.
  • Illustration on cover.
  • First sentence: "In good King Arthur's reign Tom's history first began, A farmer's wife had sigh'd in vain to have a darling son, A fairy listen'd to her call, and granted her the same, But being very small, Tom Thumb she did him name."
  • Includes 7 woodcuts.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: pink pictorial wrappers.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 24 x 15 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Nursery rhymes.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Metrical Tales and Other Verse
Call Number:
PN970 P37 P38 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.
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=7952
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_P37_P38_1836