McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Master Truelove's playgame : being a pleasing entertainment for little boys and girls by which they may learn their letters, as soon as they can speak as they are riddles and sayings of Old Mother Goose Manchester : A. Swindells, [between 1790 and 1828]

Alternative Title:

Truelove's playgame

Contributor:

Swindells, A. (Alice), publisher.

Publisher:

A. Swindells, [between 1790 and 1828]

Notes:

Undated. Date from publisher's form of name and years of activity, British Book Trade Index.
First sentence: "There was a manman, And he had a mad wife, And they lived in a mad land; They had three children all at a birth and they were all mad every one; the father was mad, the mother was mad, the che children all mad besides, they got up upon a mad horse and so madly they did ride."
Includes 11 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections: placed in black and grey hand painted covers.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 9 x 6 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- Manchester -- 18th century

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 S95 M37 1790 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.

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7994

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_S95_M37_1790