Research Catalog

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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Additional Authors

• Taylor, John, 1757-1832.
• Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft, 1797-1851.
• Godwin, William, 1756-1836.
• Mulready, William, 1786-1863
• Dibdin, Charles, 1745-1814.
• M. J. Godwin and Co., publisher
• Richard Taylor and Co., printer
• Children's Room Collection

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

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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