The history of Giles Gingerbread : a little boy who lived upon learning ; decorated with cuts /

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Author / Creator:Trip, Tommy.
Imprint:York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [1820?]
Description:31 p. : ill. ; 10 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/9049883
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Varying Form of Title:Little Giles Gingerbread
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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