Nurse Dandlem's little repository of great instruction : containing The surprising adventures of Little Wake Wilful, and his deliverance from the Giant Grumbolumbo / written by the famous Prussian, for the sole amusement of the chickabiddy generation ; embellished with copperplates.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

James Lumsden & Son, publishers.

Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Collection of British and American Fiction, 1660-1830 (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Children--Conduct of life--Juvenile fiction.

Children.

Chapbooks--Specimens.

Chapbooks.

Children--Conduct of life.

Genre:

Specimens.

Chapbooks.

Physical Description:

47, [1] pages : color illustrations ; 11 cm

Other Title:

Little repository of great instruction

Place of Publication:

Glasgow : Published and sold wholesale, by J. Lumsden and Son, [approximately 1815]

Notes:

Signatures: [A]¹² B¹².

The title page is on the verso of the first leaf; the frontispiece is on the recto of the next leaf.

Engraved illustrations in red.

First sentence: "It was always the care of good Nurse Dandlem to advise her pupils to practise what they learned, and enforce them herself."

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Julia B. Leisenring Book Fund.

Cited in:

Roscoe and Brimmell. James Lumsden & son of Glasgow, #106

OCLC:

12766033