Statement of responsibility: Illustrated possibly by William Mulready (DNB); 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).
Content: "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.
