Mounseer Nongtongpaw.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851, attributed name.

Mulready, William, 1786-1863, illustrator, attributed name.

Taylor, John, 1757-1832, attributed name.

Godwin, William, 1756-1836, attributed name.

Godwin, Mary Jane, 1768-1841, publisher.

Richard Taylor and Co., printer.

Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children's poetry, English--19th century.

Children's poetry, English.

Chapbooks--Specimens.

Chapbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Elliott, Richard Sleat, -1844 (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

16 pages, XII leaves of plates : illustrations ; 13 cm

Manufacture:

London : Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., Shoe Lane.

Place of Publication:

[London] : [Mary Jane Godwin], [between 1808 and 1813]

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: title leaf wanting. Title from caption title on page [1]. Place of publication and publisher's name from Locke. Terminus post quem for publication date range from dated caption of plate I; terminus ante quem from autograph dated 12 June 1813 on verso of plate I.

Based upon Charles Dibdin's song, "Mounseer Nong Tong Paw" (1796). Sometimes attributed to Mary Shelley; more recently described as the collaborative effort of John Taylor (1757-1832), William Mulready, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. See article by Emily W. Sunstein in Keats-Shelley journal, volume 45 (1996), page 19-22.

Printer statement from colophon on page 16.

"Published Jany. 1, 1808 at the Juvenile Library, Skinner Str. Snowhill"--Plate I.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy bound with: Monsieur Tonson. London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 41, Skinner Street, 1812.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2020 from Stuart Bennett with assistance from the Amy Comegys Memorial Fund.

Kislak Center copy has dated 19th-century autograph ("Richd: Sleat Elliott June 12th 1813") of Richard Sleat Elliott (d. 1844) on verso of plate I.

Cited in:

Locke, D. A fantasy of reason : the life and thought of William Godwin, page 215

Related Work:

Adaptation of: Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. General election. Mounseer Nong Tong Paw

OCLC:

1372655235

Online:

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