Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Jones, Major
Title:
Boss Ankles : the man what got blowed up with a sky racket.
Published / Created:
Glasgow ; & London : Cameron & Ferguson, [1876?]
Physical Description:
24 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PS648.S5 M97 1876
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Contemporary publisher's advertisements for the "Yankee comic tales" series attribute authorship to "Major Jones."

The series is dated "[1876]" in the Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum, volume 25.

Title from illustrated wrappers.

BAC: British Art Center copy in publisher's original illustrated paper wrappers. Publisher's advertisement on back cover. Cased with 8 other titles in the Yankee comic tales series.
Contents:
Boss Ankles, the man what got blowed up with a sky-racket --Anecdotes of western travel -- The anti-rail-rode man -- A running fight upon the Rackensac.
Subject Terms:
Short stories, American. | American wit and humor.
Form/Genre:
Chromolithographs -- 1876. | Publishers' advertisements -- Scotland -- Glasgow -- 1876. | Wit and humor. | Short stories.
Contributors:
Cameron and Ferguson, publisher.