McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner, 1750?-1817? Think before you speak, or, The three wishes : a tale / by the author of "The peacock at home." Philadelphia: : Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street. J. Bouvier, printer, 1810 [i.e. 1811]

Alternative Title:

Three wishes
Three wishes.

Creator:

Dorset, Catherine Ann Turner, 1750?-1817?

Contributor:

Leprince de Beaumont, Madame (Jeanne-Marie), 1711-1780.

Publisher:

Johnson & Warner, No. 147, Market Street. 1810 [i.e. 1811]

Notes:

Cover dated 1811.
"Principally taken from Mme de Beaumont's 'Le magazin des enfans."'
First sentence: "The sun withdrew his last pale ray, And clos'd the short and cheerless day: Loud blew the wind, and rain and sleet Against the cottage casement beat."
Includes 6 woodcuts.
Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: black & white frontispiece; 5 full-page illustrations. Buff card covers. Classic Fairy tales - Opie - p.155. Early American Children's Books - Rosenbach - #438. Forgotten Children's Books - Tuer - p.197. Hockliffe Collection - p.9. Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821 - D'Alte Welch - #297.1. I. Mackenzie, Montreal. March/62. $35.00. Battledore, N.Y. - '83 - $60.00; Hobbyhorse Books, Ho Ho Kus, N.J. - 90 - $150.00. Hobbyhorse - '96 - $155.00; Hobbyhorse - '97 - $225.00. Given to McGill 2001.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 13 x 11 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Children's poetry.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia -- 19th century

Chapbook Category:

Metrical Tales and Other Verse

Call Number:

PN970 J6 T4 1810 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=8254

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_J6_T4_1810