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LEADER: 01974 am a2200265 a 4500
001 6274853
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035 $a(OCoLC)234125656
039 $fAD
040 $aCaOTUTF$beng$cCaOTUTF
245 $a[Collection of nineteenth century Scottish chapbooks]
260 $a[Glasgow and other locations :$bvarious publishers,$c1769-1883]
300 $a37 v. :$bill.
500 $aTitle supplied by this library.
500 $aIncludes one volume of reprints of earlier chapbooks published by the Leadenhall Press in 1883, ""Gathyrd ande newlie sett foorth with titles, hede and tayle-peeces, ande various sculptures ... curiouslie engraven by Joseph Crawhall" (no. 35).
520 $aA collection of approx. 600 chapbooks, mainly from the first half of the nineteenth century, although most are undated. Most are printed in Scotland; imprints include Glasgow, Paisley, Edinburgh, Stirling, Falkirk, Aberdeen, Ayr and Kilmarnock, as well as London, Sheffield, Newcastle, Manchester, York and Coventry. Most are anonymous but some titles attributed to authors such as Hannah More, Daniel Defoe, Robert Burns, John Bunyan, James Hogg and Allan Ramsay. Many of the titles are illustrated wtih woodcuts.
555 $aA title index to the complete collection is available online.
590 $aFisher copy: Includes 26 volumes from the library of Joseph Crawhall, some with his manuscript notes (no. 9,17,28,34). Eight volumes with the bookplate of Andrew J. Kirkpatrick (no. 18-23,25,34). Thirteen volumes bound by Zaehnsdorf (no. 12-20,25-28); two volumes bound by Robertson, Edinburgh (no. 21-22). $5CaOTUTF
596 $a32
650 0 $aChapbooks, Scottish
650 0 $aChapbooks, English
700 1 $aCrawhall, Joseph,$d1821-1896$e(association)
710 2 $aZaehnsdorf Limited $e(binder)
856 42 $uhttp://www.library.utoronto.ca/fisher/collections/findaids/chapbook-list.pdf$zOnline index.
926 $aFISHER$bRAREBOOKS$cchap$dBOOK$f1