Acting charrades : or Deeds not words ; a Christmas game to make a long evening short / by the Brothers Mayhew ; illustrated by H.G. Hine.

Accession number: 
PML 88933
Author: 
Mayhew, Augustus, 1826-1875.
Published: 
London : D. Bogue, 86 Fleet St., [185?]
Description: 
x, [2], 134, [2] p. : ill. some col. (engravings) ; 17 x 14 cm
Credit: 
Gift of Lincoln Kirstein, 1979.
Notes: 

Hand colored, steel engraved frontispiece and vignette on title page, signed H.G. Hine.
Wood engraved vignettes in silhouette throughout the text, all unsigned.
"London: Henry Vizetelly, printer and engraver, Gough Square, Fleet Street"--p. 134
"Alphabetical list of words that can be acted as charades"--on unnumbered page, following text.

Binding: 
Publisher's red rib-grain cloth, blocked in gold and blind.
Variant Title: 

Deeds not words

Provenance: 
From the library of Lincoln Kirstein.
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