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• Title:[Cock Robin.]
  An elegy on the death and burial of Cock Robin : ornamented with cuts.
  
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• Variant Title: Death and burial of Cock Robin
  Cock Robin
  
• Other Contributors/Collections:Kendrew, James, printer, publisher.
  
• Published/Created:York : Printed by J. Kendrew, 23, Colliergate, [approximately 1820]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PZ6 1820 C634
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Miniature books--Specimens.
  Chapbooks.
  Birds--Juvenile poetry.
  Chapbooks, English--Specimens.
  
• Description:16 pages : illustrations (wood engravings) ; 95 mm
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Local note:Back cover mutilated.
  
• Notes:Pale yellow wrappers.
  In verse.
  Wrappers included in pagination.
  Woodcut on page 11 shows Cock Robin's coffin inscribed with the date "1805."
  Approximate publication date from Gumuchian, 1577.
  Special Collections copy is in publisher's printed stained yellow self wrappers.
  
• Cited in:Davis, R. Kendrew of York, 17
  Osborne Coll., p. 91
  Meriton, J. Small books for the common man, 729