The Shoemakers Present

I have in my posession, in fact I'm the fourth generation of daughter to receive it, a little book entitled The Shoemakers Present. It was presented to Nellie Ashley in 1884 at the Rea St School in Birmingham England - coincidentaly the very school my father in law used to pass every day on his way to school - for passing the 5th Standard and making 350 attendances during the school year. I never realised that the frontispiece was a woodblock - amazing what a bit of education can do for a girl. Unfortunately, there is no bibliographic information, not even an author. Shame.

Judging from this site, my little book is newer than a chap book, plus it's been printed in more than two colours: the maximum amount of colours the chap books here have been printed in. Also, the book has 64 pages, considerable more than most chap books.