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Monsieur Nongtongpaw

Title: Monsieur Nongtongpaw / with illustrations by Robert Cruikshank.
Publication: London : Alfred Miller ..., and Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1830.

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Status	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	MEM C956M (Monsieur Nongtongpaw)	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	Text	Permit needed	Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw) 1830	Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

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Description

19, [5] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill.; 16 cm. (12mo)

Note

In verse.
Sometimes attributed to Mary Shelley; more recently described as the collaborative effort of John Taylor (1757-1832), William Mulready, William Godwin, and Mary Shelley. Cf. article by Emily W. Sunstein in Keats-Shelley journal, v. 45 (1996), p. 19-22.
Originally published: Mounseer Nongtongpaw. London: Printed for the proprietors of the Juvenile Library ..., 1808.
Based upon Charles Dibdin's song, "Mounseer Nong Tong Paw" (1796).
"London: printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset-Street"--T.p. verso.
Publisher's advertisements: p. [21-24] and p. [4] of covers.
Signatures: pi1 [A]-B⁶ C⁴ (-C4) chi². Plates are integral parts of the gatherings.
Issued in yellow paper covers.

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Call Number

MEM C956M (Monsieur Nongtongpaw)

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Title

Monsieur Nongtongpaw / with illustrations by Robert Cruikshank.

Imprint

London : Alfred Miller ..., and Constable and Co., Edinburgh, 1830.

Restricted Access

Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer Copy 1: Stitched, in modern blue wrappers; in CHPL envelope. Lacks publisher's advertisements.

Pforzheimer Copy 2: In original yellow paper covers; in brown slipcase.

Copy in MEM lacks frontispiece.

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Added Author

Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.

Taylor, John, 1757-1832.

Mulready, William, 1786-1863.

Godwin, William, 1756-1836.

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856. Illustrator

Miller, Alfred. Publisher

Bentley, Samuel, 1785-1868. Printer

Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. Mounseer Nong Tong Paw.

Archibald Constable & Co. Publisher

Research Call Number

MEM C956M (Monsieur Nongtongpaw)

Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw) 1830