George Cruikshank's table-book / edited by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett; illustrated by George Cruikshank

George Cruikshank

RA Collection: Book

Record number

15/500

Author

Edition

First edition

Imprint

London: Published at the Punch office, 92, Fleet Street, MDCCCXLV

Physical Description

viii, 284 pages, [12] leaves of plate : illustrations (wood and steel engravings) ; 24 cm.

General Note

Vol. I, no. I-vol. I, no. XII.
A miscellany of prose and poetry, by the editor and others (John Oxenford, Horace Mayhew, Paul Prendergast [i.e. Percival Leigh], Shirley Brooks, Mark Lemon, Michael Angelo Titmarsh [i.e. William Makepeace Thackeray], Angus B. Reach, -- Ferguson). Each monthly number included a steel engraving by Cruikshank.
Added engraved and hand-tinted title page.

Binding Note

Original red-cloth covers. Spine labelled in gold: George Cruikshank's Table Book

Subject

Illustrated periodicals
English wit and humor - 19th century
Caricatures and cartoons - Great Britain

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