Accession number:
PML 5927
Published:
[S.l. : s.n., not after 1858]
Description:
vi, 47 [i.e. 57], [1] + p. ; 22 cm (8vo)
Credit:
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes:
3rd ed.
Artists include Courbould (p. 48), Nasmyth (p. 40), Rowlandson (p. 38), Meyer (several), Carruthers (p. 13), Thurston (p. 6), Uwins (several), Ridley (several), Warren (p. 4), Fittler (p. 6), and Holloway (p. 46).
Copy imperfect, with signatures marked N-Q; probably part of Poetical works with fly title for this item, not including separate t.p.
Extra-illustrated with 80 plates (1 folded), mostly portraits of authors named in the text; several are proof plates.
Possibly a D. Appleton edition; purchased (by Irwin?) from Appleton in 1858 (note at end).
Binding:
Tan calf, gold- and blind-tooled.
Provenance:
From the Theodore Irwin collection.
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