The adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. Wherein are duly set forth the crosses, chagrins, calamities, checks, chills, changes and circumgirations by which his courtship was attended. Showing also, the issue of his suit and his espousal to his ladyelove.

Accession number

PML 9352

Creator

Töpffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846

Published

London : Tilt and Bogue, Fleet Street, [1841]

Credit line

Purchased with the De Forest collection, 1899.

Notes

Attributed to Töpffer by NUC-Pre 1956 Imprints and by David Kunzle, who says that the work was plagiarized and copied from Töpffer and that the frontispiece was designed and engraved by Robert Cruikshank.

Description

84 numbered plates (including title page) : chiefly illustrations (lithographs) ; 14 x 22 cm

Provenance

George B. De Forest; Pierpont Morgan.

Binding

Modern blue-green cloth, all edges gilt, leather label. Original brown cloth, gilt-stamped cover bound in.

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The adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck. Wherein are duly set forth the crosses, chagrins, calamities, checks, chills, changes and circumgirations by which his courtship was attended. Showing also, the issue of his suit and his espousal to his ladyelove.