Accession number
PML 144634-37
Creator
Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
Published
[London : H. Hooper, 1840]
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
1st ed. of Thackeray's essay, removed from the Westminster review, June, 1840, no 66, p. [1]-60.
Essay originally appeared in the Westminster review with the running title reading "George Cruikshank", and no additional caption or introductory title; the title supplied here is taken from the t.p. of the separate ed. of 1840.
Signed: [Theta] [i.e. William Makepeace Thackeray].
Library's copy includes handwritten t.p.'s at head of all 4 volumes, written in red, green, and black ink, and reading: An essay on the genius of Geo. Cruikshank by W.M. Thackeray. Illustrated.
Library's copy disbound with the leaves inlaid into individual album leaves; the whole expanded to 4. v. with the addition of extra-illustrative materials; with a handwritten index to the added illustrations at the beginning of each volume.
Individual records available in CORSAIR for the volume's 14 published caricatures and single original drawing by Cruikshank.
Essay originally appeared in the Westminster review with the running title reading "George Cruikshank", and no additional caption or introductory title; the title supplied here is taken from the t.p. of the separate ed. of 1840.
Signed: [Theta] [i.e. William Makepeace Thackeray].
Library's copy includes handwritten t.p.'s at head of all 4 volumes, written in red, green, and black ink, and reading: An essay on the genius of Geo. Cruikshank by W.M. Thackeray. Illustrated.
Library's copy disbound with the leaves inlaid into individual album leaves; the whole expanded to 4. v. with the addition of extra-illustrative materials; with a handwritten index to the added illustrations at the beginning of each volume.
Individual records available in CORSAIR for the volume's 14 published caricatures and single original drawing by Cruikshank.
Description
4 v. (60 p.) : ill. ; 22 cm.
Provenance
Bookplate of Oliver Belmont; from the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Green morocco tooled in gilt by J. Larkins.
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