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Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.
- Title
- Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.
- Publication
- London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 41 Skinner Street. 1811.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Permit needed | Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1811) | Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Restricted use | *KH 1811 Mounseer 16-864 | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- 16 p., XII leaves of plates : ill.; 13 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Mounseer Nongtongpaw, or, The discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris
- Genre/Form
- Juvenile literature.
- Note
- First line: "John Bull from England's happy isle."
- 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 C. 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.
- Access (note)
- Restricted access;
- Binding (note)
- Copy in *KH bound in publisher's printed brown wrappers. Rebacked and repaired.
- Call Number
- Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1811)
- OCLC
- 11048925
- Title
- Mounseer Nongtongpaw : a new version.
- Imprint
- London : Printed for M.J. Godwin, at the Juvenile Library, 41 Skinner Street. 1811.
- Edition
- Third edition.
- Local Note
- Pforzheimer copy: Disbound; with printed brown paper lower cover only. -- Each plate fully hand-colored. -- Within white envelope.
- Restricted Access
- Restricted access; Pforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.
- Binding
- Copy in *KH bound in publisher's printed brown wrappers. Rebacked and repaired. NN
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- M. J. Godwin and Co., publisher.Richard Taylor and Co., printer.Taylor, John, 1757-1832.Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.Godwin, William, 1756-1836.Mulready, William, 1786-1863, illustrator.Adaptation of (work): Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814. General election. Mounseer Nong Tong Paw.Children's Room Collection.
- Cover Title
- Mounseer Nongtongpaw, or, The discoveries of John Bull in a trip to Paris
- Research Call Number
- Pforz (Shelley, M. Mounseer Nongtongpaw. 1811)*KH 1811 Mounseer 16-864