McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

William Tell: the hero of Switzerland : a poem. London : Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, [between 1845 and 1862]

Publisher:

Groombridge and Sons, Paternoster Row, [between 1845 and 1862]

Notes:

Approximate dates established from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c. 1800-1870, p. 78
First sentence: "It chanced upon a summer day I sat beneath a leafy tree; Around ran girls and boys at play, Hither and thither joyously."
Includes 4 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: black & white frontispiece; vignette on title-page, cuts. 1 of 12 books in chapbok form, previously bound in book form. Self wrappers. Adelphi Book Shop, Victoria, B.C. May/66 $2.00.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 12 x 8 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Tell, Wilhelm.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Switzerland -- History.

Genre/Form:

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

Chapbook Category:

Prose Fiction

Call Number:

PN970 G7 W5 1845 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=8228

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_G7_W5_1845