The history of Sam, the sportsman, and his gun :
also, of his wife Joan ; embellished with wood-cuts.

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Related Names

Kendrew, James.

Language(s)

English

Published

York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [ca. 1820]

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / York > Chapbooks / England / York / 19th century

Note

Includes 11 woodcuts.
First sentence: "There was a little man, And he had a little gun, And he liv'd by the side of a wood; He had a little wife, Who lov'd him as her life, And to please him would do what she could."
Date from Toronto. Osborne Coll., p. 96, which also notes: "An extended chapbook version of the rhyme 'There was a little man, and he had a little gun'. At the end is 'Economy of time', a dialogue between Jenny and her grandmother." Cf. Mansell 248:131.
Cover title.

Physical Description

16 p. : ill. ; 96 x 65 mm.

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