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• Title:The history of Giles Gingerbread : a little boy who lived upon learning ; decorated with cuts / by Tom Trip.
  
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• Variant Title:Little Giles Gingerbread
  
• Author/Creator:Trip, Tommy.
  
• Published/Created:York : Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, [1820?]
  

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  • Location:RARE BOOKS & SPECIAL COLLECTIONS Where is this?
    
  • Call Number: PZ6 1820 G548
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Miniature books--Specimens.
  Chapbooks.
  Education--Juvenile literature.
  Reading--Juvenile literature.
  Conduct of life--Juvenile literature.
  Chapbooks--Specimens.
  
• Description:31 pages : illustrations ; 10 cm
  
• Series:Penny books.
  
• Additional formats:Available also online.
  
• Notes:Contains also the poems: The boy who knew nothing, and praise for the Gospel.
  Light brown wrappers; back cover contain's a list of Kendrew's Penny books.
  Abridged chapbook version of The renowed history of Giles Gingerbread published in 1765.
  Alphabet on p. [4].
  Frontispiece included in pagination.
  First and last leaves pasted down to wrappers.
  Publisher's advertisement on lower wrapper (Davis' list B).
  First sentence: "One day as Gaffer Gingerbread was coming from work, he saw little Giles, who was ragged as a colt, getting up behind Sir Toby Thompson's coach; upon which he called to him: here, Giles, come hither to me."
  Includes 12 woodcuts.
  
• Cited in:NUC pre-1956, 601:564
  Osborne Coll., 314
  Davis, R. Kendrew of York, 26