Jean Gilpin : l'histoire divertissante de la promenade à cheval

Date:

1925.

Author:

Cowper, William, 1731-1800.

Collecting Area:

Mathes Childrens Literature

Call Number:

YH C876 J43 1925 LOCAL

Publisher:

Frederick A. Stokes Co.

Abstract:

A comic ballad about how John Gilpin, a London draper, gets separated from his wife and children during a journey to the Bell Inn, Edmonton. Gilpin loses control of his horse, and is carried ten miles further to the town of Ware.

Physical Description:

79 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm

Notes:

Color illustrated lining-papers. LOCAL

Curator Notes:

1925 Stokes imprint, c 1925; this work first appeared in English in the 1880's; spine titles printed in black on red cloth, full-size color-illustrated label pasted on front cover

Genres/Forms:

Humorous poetry. lcgft, Ballads. lcgft, Ballads, and Humorous poetry