Accession number:
PML 144724
Published:
London : Charles Gilpin, 1849.
Description:
xiii, 370, [2] p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. (part col.) ; 22 cm.
Credit:
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes:
Illustrated with textual wood engravings and 8 wood engraved plates, 6 of them colored by hand; the majority of the plates are signed with the initials "SB" [i.e. Samuel Bevan] and by the engraver W.C. Harrison.
Includes the first appearance of W.M. Thackeray's ballad "Little Billee," here printed under the title "The three sailors", p. 340-342.
Publisher's advertisements ([2] pages) at end of text.
"Richard Barrett, Printer, 13, Mark Lane, London."--Colophon.
Binding:
Original green cloth stamped in gold and blind.
Provenance:
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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