| Author | Thoms, William John, 1803-1885.
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| Title | Gammer Gurton's pleasant stories : of patient Grissel, the Princess Rosetta, & Robin Goodfellow, and ballads of the Beggar's daughter, the Babes in the wood, and Fair Rosamond / newly revised and amended by Amb. Mer. [i.e. Ambrose Merton, pseud.]
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| Published | [Westminster] : Printed for Joseph Cundall, Old Bond Street, in the City of Westminster, [1845] ([Chiswick] : Printed by C. Whittingham)
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| Description | [100] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
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| General Note | "Gammer Gurton's story books"--Original series title, at head of caption titles.
Dedication "to the indulgent reader" by Ambrose Merton: p. [3].
"Names of the painters who made the pictures in this book," John Franklin and John Absolon: p. [4]
Wood engravings: author's device on t.p., plates, margin illustrations, historiated initials, and tail-pieces.
T.p. printed in black and red.
Title and text within ornamental border, designed and printed to resemble an illuminated manuscript.
Cf. Osborne Coll., p. 612.
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| Subjects | Chapbooks.
Chivalry -- Juvenile literature.
Knights and knightood -- Juvenile literature.
Tales -- England.
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| Other Authors | Absolon, John, 1815-1895.
Franklin, John, fl. 1800-1861.
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| Call Number/Copies | |
| | WRHS Research Library: B 2500
mq147610: Local class, closed stacks [status: NON-CIRCULATING] |
| [Record 84616] |
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