Accession number
PML 142368
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
[London] : Published by J. Robins and Co., [1827?]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Title and publisher information from printed wrappers.
Later issue of the illustrations published in Clinton, G. Memoirs of the life and writings of Lord Byron, London, 1825. Cf. Cohn, A. M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné, 145.
The frontispiece portrait of Byron is not by Cruikshank.
Plates are preceded by [4] p. of publisher's advertisements, with an excerpted review dated Oct., 1827 on [3].
Library's copy contains only 38 plates and lacks the facsimile of Byron's handwriting accounted for in other copies.
Later issue of the illustrations published in Clinton, G. Memoirs of the life and writings of Lord Byron, London, 1825. Cf. Cohn, A. M. George Cruikshank, a catalogue raisonné, 145.
The frontispiece portrait of Byron is not by Cruikshank.
Plates are preceded by [4] p. of publisher's advertisements, with an excerpted review dated Oct., 1827 on [3].
Library's copy contains only 38 plates and lacks the facsimile of Byron's handwriting accounted for in other copies.
Description
[40] leaves of plates : ill. (wood engravings), port., facsim. ; 23 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's printed wrappers.
Classification
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