Black Giles, the poacher :
with some account of a family who had rather live by their wits than their work : in two parts.

Description

Main Author

More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Related Names

Hazard, Samuel, d. 1806.
Hatchard, John, 1768-1849.
Howard & Evans.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : [between 1801 and 1811]

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Theft > Theft / Juvenile literature.
Poaching > Poaching / Juvenile literature.
Honesty > Honesty / Juvenile literature.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / London > Chapbooks / England / London / 19th century

Note

Includes 1 woodcut.
First sentence: "Poaching Giles lives on the borders of one of those great Moors in Somersetshire."
Cf. Welch, D.A. Amer. children's books, 882.1.
Cf. Rosenbach, A.S.W. Children's books, 343.
Cf. Green, E. Bibliotheca Somersetensis. 1902, v. 3, p. 66.
Variant title: History of Black Giles.
Woodcut: title-page vignette.
Caption title: Black Giles, &c.
Part 2 title: The history of Widow Brown's apple tree.
Continuously paged.
At head of title: Cheap Repository.
Approximate date from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c.1800-1870.
By Hannah More; signed Z on p. 32.

Physical Description

32 p. ; 18 x 12 cm.

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