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The diverting history of John Gilpin : showing how he went farther than he intended and came safe home again / by William Cowper ; with many illustrations by Ronald Searle.

Accession number
PML 129065
Creator
Cowper, William, 1731-1800.
Published
[London, Printed at the Chiswick Press for Sir Allen Lane and Richard Lane, Christmas, 1952]
Credit line
Gift; Charles Ryskamp; 2002.
Notes
1600 copies printed.
"Of this book one thousand six hundred copies have been printed and bound at The Chiswick Press, London, N11..."--Colophon
"The illustrations were originally made for a film in the 'Poet and Painter' series for the Festival of Britain. Wiggins Teape & Co made the paper and Stephenson Blake & Co supplied the type originally cut by Fry's Bristol Letter Foundry"--Colophon.
Inscribed CA Ryskamp Princeton 20-vi-58.
Description
44 p. : ill. ; 30 cm.
Provenance
Charles Ryskamp.
Binding
Light blue wrappers, pictorial front wrapper with man on horseback and title in crimson, John Gilpin.
Classification
Department