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Title

Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.

Publication

London : Printed for the proprietors of the Juvenile Library, 41, Skinner Street. 1808.

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Additional Authors

• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851
• Taylor, John, 1757-1832
• Mulready, William, 1786-1863
• Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814
• M. J. Godwin and Co., publisher.
• Richard Taylor and Co., printer.

Description

16 pages, XII leaves of plates : ill.; 13 cm.

Alternative Title

Discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris

Note

• 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 Charles 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.

Call Number

Pforz (Shelley, M. W. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1808) copy 1

OCLC

NYPG00-B5527

Title

Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.

Imprint

London : Printed for the proprietors of the Juvenile Library, 41, Skinner Street. 1808.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1: With the ownership signature of "Reginald Graham" in ink on the title-page. -- Plates I and II are hand-colored. -- Stitched in original yellow printed paper covers; cover parallel title: "The discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris."

Pforzheimer copy 2: Bound first along with the Juvenile Library's Monsieur Tonson (1808) and Little Red Riding-Hood published by Tabart (1808). -- All plates hand-colored. -- Ink dedication dated 1809, partially effaced, on front free endpaper. -- Contemporary quarter calf, drab boards, paper spine label with manuscript titling.

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Added Author

M. J. Godwin and Co., publisher.

Richard Taylor and Co., printer.

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

Taylor, John, 1757-1832, attributed name.

Mulready, William, 1786-1863, illustrator.

Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814, bibliographic antecedant.

Graham, Reginald, former owner.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Shelley, M. W. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1808) copy 2