Accession number
PML 22821-22
Creator
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779-1837.
Published
London : R. Bentley, 1838.
Notes
First ed., first issue.
Plate, The last song, in first state.
Grimaldi's original ms. was first altered and revised by Mr. Thomas Egerton Wilks, who sold it to the present publisher. "The present editor ... accepted a proposal from the publisher to edit the book, and has edited it to the best of his ability, altering its form throughout, and making such other alterations as he conceived would improve the narration of the facts, without any departure from the facts themselves."--Introductory chapter.
First edition, first issue.
Clark, W.A. Cruikshank and Dickens. 1921-1923. v. 1, p. 32-33. Cohen, George Cruikshank, 1924, no. 237.
"Printed by Samuel Bentley."
Plate, The last song, in first state.
Grimaldi's original ms. was first altered and revised by Mr. Thomas Egerton Wilks, who sold it to the present publisher. "The present editor ... accepted a proposal from the publisher to edit the book, and has edited it to the best of his ability, altering its form throughout, and making such other alterations as he conceived would improve the narration of the facts, without any departure from the facts themselves."--Introductory chapter.
First edition, first issue.
Clark, W.A. Cruikshank and Dickens. 1921-1923. v. 1, p. 32-33. Cohen, George Cruikshank, 1924, no. 237.
"Printed by Samuel Bentley."
Description
2 v. : front. (port.) 12 pl. ; 19 cm
Binding
Original pink embossed cloth in red cloth box.
Classification
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