McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Girl's own book of amusing and instructive stories : embellished with cuts. Providence : Published by Geo. P. Daniels, 1843.

Publisher:

Published by Geo. P. Daniels, 1843.

Notes:

Half-title: frontispiece verso.
Wood engravings: frontispiece, title-page vignette, text illustrations.
First sentence: "Oh, who is that laughing and singing, and skipping about so merrily?"
Includes 11 woodcuts.
Contents: Happy Flora -- Happy New Year -- Little Fanny.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: frontispiece; title-page cut; 9 other cuts. Brown pictorial wrappers. St. Nicholas Books, Toronto. Oct/74. $12.50. Given to McGill 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 15 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Girls -- Conduct of life -- Juvenile literature.
Children's stories.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks.
Chapbooks -- Rhode Island -- Providence -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Prose Fiction

Call Number:

PN970 D3 G5 1843 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=8196

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_D3_G5_1843