Notes: | Abridged chapbook version of The renowed history of Giles Gingerbread published in 1765. Alphabet on p. [4]. Frontispiece included in pagination. First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers. Publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper (Davis' list B). First sentence: "One day as Gaffer Gingerbread was coming from work, he saw little Giles, who was ragged as a colt, getting up behind Sir Toby Thompson's coach; upon which he called to him: here, Giles, come hither to me." Includes 12 woodcuts. NUC pre-1956, 601:564 Osborne Coll., 314 Davis, R. Kendrew of York, 26
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