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Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.

Title
Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.
Publication
London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 41 Skinner Street. 1811.

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Additional Authors
  • Taylor, John, 1757-1832.
  • Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
  • Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
  • Mulready, William, 1786-1863
  • Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
  • M. J. Godwin and Co., publisher.
  • Richard Taylor and Co., printer.
  • Children's Room Collection.
Description
16 p., XII leaves of plates : ill.; 13 cm.
Alternative Title
Mounseer Nongtongpaw, or, The discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris
Genre/Form
Juvenile literature.
Note
  • First line: "John Bull from England's happy isle."
  • Epigraph: "Now list awhile, good people all, / To what the Muse shall tell, / Of John Bull's journey into Gaul, / And what him there befel."
  • "To enable the unlearned reader to enter into the spirit of the following story, he should be informed, that 'Je vous n'entends pas,' is French for 'I don't understand you.'" -- title-page verso.
  • Authorship uncertain; based upon C. Dibdin's song, "Mounseer Nong Tong Paw" (1796); perhaps a collaborative effort by John Taylor (1757-1832), William Mulready, William Godwin, and Mary Wollstonecraft [Godwin] Shelley (cf. E. W. Sunstein's "A William Godwin Letter, and Young Mary Godwin's Part in 'Mounseer Nongtongpaw'" in the Keats-Shelley journal, v. 45 (1996), p. 19-22).
  • Printer's imprint: "Printed by Richard Taylor and Co., Shoe Lane."
  • Illustrations: 12 etched plates designed by William Mulready, numbered with roman numerals.
Access (note)
  • Restricted access;
Binding (note)
  • Copy in *KH bound in publisher's printed brown wrappers. Rebacked and repaired.
Call Number
Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1811)
OCLC
11048925
Title
Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.
Imprint
London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 41 Skinner Street. 1811.
Edition
Third edition.
Local Note
Pforzheimer copy: Disbound; with printed brown paper lower cover only. -- Each plate fully hand-colored. -- Within white envelope.
Restricted Access
Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
Binding
Copy in *KH bound in publisher's printed brown wrappers. Rebacked and repaired. NN
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Added Author
M. J. Godwin and Co., publisher.
Richard Taylor and Co., printer.
Taylor, John, 1757-1832.
Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
Mulready, William, 1786-1863, illustrator.
Adaptation of (work): Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. General election. Mounseer Nong Tong Paw.
Children's Room Collection.
Cover Title
Mounseer Nongtongpaw, or, The discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris
Research Call Number
Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1811)
*KH 1811 Mounseer 16-864
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