Fairburn's Edition of Johnny Gilpin's diverting journey to ware
[JOHNNY GILPIN]
From Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 July 2015
From Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Seller rating 4 out of 5 stars
AbeBooks Seller since 15 July 2015
About this Item
13pp, [3]. Wrappers included in pagination. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. Oversewn in original publisher's yellow wrappers, hand-coloured pictorial title label pasted to upper wrapper. Extremities worn, marked, dust-soiled, and creased, loss to spine, short tears to both wrappers, slight loss to lower corner of upper wrapper. Some spotting internally. A rare survival of a vibrant chapbook retelling, for a juvenile readership, of William Cowperâ s (1731-1800) The Diverting History of John Gilpin (1782), a comic ballad concerning the titular draper and his misadventure with a runaway horse. OCLC records copies at five locations (Indiana, Oxford, Princeton, Washington, and V&A). Size: 8vo. Seller Inventory # AQ23415
Bibliographic Details
Title: Fairburn's Edition of Johnny Gilpin's ...
Publisher: Printed and Published by John Fairburn, [s.d., c.1830s], London
Binding: Soft cover
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