Holiday entertainment, or, The good child's fairing : containing the plays and sports of Charles and Billy Welldon, and other little boys and girls who went with them to the fair.
Bibliographic Citation:
Holiday entertainment, or, The good child's fairing : containing the plays and sports of Charles and Billy Welldon, and other little boys and girls who went with them to the fair. Glasgow : Lumsden and Son, [1820?]
Alternative Title:
Holiday entertainment
Good child's fairing
Contributor:
James Lumsden & Son, publisher.
Publisher:
Lumsden and Son, [1820?]
Notes:
  • Cover title.
  • Date of publication from Roscoe & Brimmell's Lumsden & Son of Glasgow as cited below.
  • First sentence: "That all little folks should mind their language, is a truth which nobody will dispute; but that they should have play, amusement, and holidays, at proper times, to be sure, is as necessary; in which, no doubt, they will all very readily agree with me; and if they are as ready to read this little book, I could venture to lay a wager, that they will not afterwards be sorry for it."
  • Includes 9 woodcuts.
  • Citations/References: Roscoe & Brimmell. Lumsden, ǂc 84
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: title-page vignette & 7 wood engravings in rectangular frames. Yellow wrappers with a large wood engraving within an oval frame on both back & front wrappers. P.18 is misnumbered "16." 2nd copy has blue wrappers, with different wood engravings on front & back wrappers. Osborne - p.897. The Bewick Collector - Hugo - #17. Lumsden - Roscoe & Brimmel - #84. Gumuchian - #1572 - claims wood engravings are by Thomas Bewick. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. Nov/88. $300.00. Victoria Book Shop. New York. Aug/90. $200.00. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. - '95 - $375.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 10 x 7 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Conduct of life -- Juvenile fiction.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Prose Fiction
Call Number:
PN970 L86 H65 1820 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.
Copyright:
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Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8277
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_L86_H65_1820