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[An essay on the genius of George Cruikshank].

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.
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.
Classification
Department