Accession number
PML 8486-8488
Published
London : Joseph Robins ..., 1827-1830.
Notes
"London : Printed by Littlewood and Co." (v. 1, verso of title).
xii, 420 p. (each of first 3 vols.); added engraved frontispiece and title in each volume; dedication portraits added (1827: "The Album", 1828), engraved by J. Rogers, R. Page and J. Greig.
"Stanzas to a redbreast" (p. 72, 1828 vol.) supposedly by Robert Burns, according to editor "have never appeared in any other collection."
Includes works by Byron (vol. 2, p. 12, "If I forsake thee) , Hazlitt (v. 3, p. 141-144), Leigh Hunt (vol. 2, p. 162, "The old gentleman" and vol. 3, p. 21-26, "Seamen ashore", and vol. 3, 101-105, "Maid servant" ), Thomas Moore (vol. 2, p. 54, "Italy"), and Walter Scott (vol. 1, p. 140, "Lines to Monsieur Alexandre")
"Lines to Monsieur Alexandre" was written for the celebrated Monsieur Alexandre the ventriloquist when he visited Scott at Abbotsford, April 23, 1824 -- editor's note.
Col. etchings by George Cruikshank, 12 for the year 1827 and 3 for 1829 and by Robert Cruikshank, 9 for the year 1829. The plates are engr. by Samuel Freeman, in stipple, 5 for the year 1827-1828; H. Robinson, 6 for 1827-1829; J. Rogers, 14 for 1827-1829; R. Page, 3 for 1828; J. Shury for 1827 and 1 by P. Thomas for 1828.
Library lacks final (1830) volume.
xii, 420 p. (each of first 3 vols.); added engraved frontispiece and title in each volume; dedication portraits added (1827: "The Album", 1828), engraved by J. Rogers, R. Page and J. Greig.
"Stanzas to a redbreast" (p. 72, 1828 vol.) supposedly by Robert Burns, according to editor "have never appeared in any other collection."
Includes works by Byron (vol. 2, p. 12, "If I forsake thee) , Hazlitt (v. 3, p. 141-144), Leigh Hunt (vol. 2, p. 162, "The old gentleman" and vol. 3, p. 21-26, "Seamen ashore", and vol. 3, 101-105, "Maid servant" ), Thomas Moore (vol. 2, p. 54, "Italy"), and Walter Scott (vol. 1, p. 140, "Lines to Monsieur Alexandre")
"Lines to Monsieur Alexandre" was written for the celebrated Monsieur Alexandre the ventriloquist when he visited Scott at Abbotsford, April 23, 1824 -- editor's note.
Col. etchings by George Cruikshank, 12 for the year 1827 and 3 for 1829 and by Robert Cruikshank, 9 for the year 1829. The plates are engr. by Samuel Freeman, in stipple, 5 for the year 1827-1828; H. Robinson, 6 for 1827-1829; J. Rogers, 14 for 1827-1829; R. Page, 3 for 1828; J. Shury for 1827 and 1 by P. Thomas for 1828.
Library lacks final (1830) volume.
Description
4 v. : ill. (part col.), ports. ; 15 cm
Binding
3/4 brown morocco (1827), 3/4 red morocco (1828, 1829), all gilt-tooled.
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