The history of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London : with the adventures of his cat.
Bibliographic Citation:
The history of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London : with the adventures of his cat. Banbury : Printed by J.G. Rusher, [ca. 1820]
Alternative Title:
Sir Richard Whittington and his cat
Publisher:
Printed by J.G. Rusher, [ca. 1820]
Notes:
  • Cover title.
  • Woodcut title vignette and illustrations.
  • "The woodcuts are engraved by A.R. Branston after George Cruikshank. One cut is signed 'Fry'."--Osborne Coll., cited below.
  • First sentence: "Dick Whittington was but a very little boy when his father and mother died, indeed so young that he knew neither of them, nor the place he was born in."
  • Includes 10 woodcuts.
  • Citations/References: Osborne Coll., I, p. 47
  • Retells the traditional tale of the poor boy in medieval England who made his fortune through his mouse-catching cat and became Lord Mayor of London.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections Children's Collection: uncut; folded as issued. 10 black & white woodcuts. Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections Shelia R. Bourke Collection: bound with 4 other chapbooks subsequent to publication, with binder's title: Banbury Chapbooks. 10 hand-coloured wood engravings. Bound in brown calf by Wood of London. St. Andrews N.B. Antique Show. July/83. $10.00 for the 5 books. Hobbyhorse Books. Ho Ho Kus, N.J. - '91 - $90.00 for this one chapbook.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 10 x 7 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Legendary Romances, Fairy Stories and Folk Tales in Prose
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:
All images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. For information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.
Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8304
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_R87_H5_1820_000116067