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1. Rookwood : a romance / by W. Harrison Ainsworth, esq. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
xxix, [5], 502 p., [15] leaves of plates : ill., port ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

2. The life of Sir John Falstaff / illustrated by George Cruikshank ; with a biography of the knight from authentic sources, by Robert B. Brough.

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Creator:
Brough, Robert B. (Robert Barnabas), 1828–1860
Date:
1858
Physical Description:
2, [xi]-xx, 196 p., [19] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

3. The Comic almanack : an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing merry tales, humorous poetry, quips, and oddities / by Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert À Beckett, the brothers Mayhew ... with many hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.

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Date:
1834?-1852?]
Physical Description:
19 v. ill. ; 14-17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

4. Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi / edited by "Boz" ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Grimaldi, Joseph, 1779–1837
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., ports. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

5. The life and surprising adventures of Robinson Crusoe, of York, mariner / with introductory verses by Bernard Barton, and illustrated with numerous engravings from drawings by George Cruikshank expressly designed for this edition.

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Creator:
Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

6. The Comic almanack; an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing merry tales, humorous poetry, quips, and oddities. By Thackeray, Albert Smith, Gilbert À Beckett, the brothers Mayhew ... With many hundred illustrations by George Cruikshank and other artists.

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Date:
[between 1863 and 1873]
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

7. Land sharks and sea gulls / by Captain Glascock, R.N. ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Galscock, W. N. (William Nugent), 1787?-1847
Date:
1838
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

8. Phrenological illustrations or, An artist's view of the craniological system of doctors Gall and Spurzheim.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
[4], 6 leaves : ill. ; 26 x 37 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

9. Hans of Iceland.

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Creator:
Hugo, Victor, 1802–1885
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[6], 225 pages, [4] leaves of plates : illustrations ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

10. Scenes from the life of Edward Lascelles, gent.

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Creator:
Inglis, Henry D. (Henry David), 1795–1835
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

11. The age of intellect, or, Clerical showfolk, and wonderful layfolk : a series of poetical epistles between Bob Blazon in town, and Jack Jingle in the country : dedicated to the Fair Circassian : with notes critical, ethical, satirical, physiological, craniological, and astrological / by Francis Moore, physician, author of the celebrated work entitled Vox stellarum or, A loyal almanack.

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Creator:
Moore, Francis, 1657–1714
Date:
1819
Physical Description:
[4], ii, [v]-xxiii, [24]-172, [8] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

12. The tooth-ache / imagined by Horace Mayhew ; and realized by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:
[1849]
Physical Description:
1 folded sheet ([23] p.) : chiefly ill. ; 226 x 13 cm. folded to 13 x 13 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

13. Modern chivalry, or, A new Orlando Furioso / with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Gore, Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances), 1799–1861
Date:
1843
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

14. Three courses and a dessert / the decorations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Clarke, William, 1800–1838
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
432, 7, [1] p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

15. Cheerful pastimes for merry-making parties : descriptive of the various domestic amusements resorted to in youthful and genteel society, tending to occupy the mind, and while away the winter evenings in hilarity / illustrated by Cruikshank.

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Date:
1830
Physical Description:
xxi, 185 p., 1 unnumbered folded leaf of plates : 1 illustration ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

16. "The greatest plague of life", or, The adventures of a lady in search of a good servant / by one who has been "almost worried to death" ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Augustus, 1826–1875
Date:
[1847]
Physical Description:
[6] parts : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

17. Whom to marry and how to get married, or, The adventures of a lady in search of a good husband / edited by the brothers Mayhew ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Mayhew, Horace, 1816–1872
Date:
[1856]
Physical Description:
[4], 271 p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

18. Land and sea tales / by the old sailor ; illustrated by George Cruikshank ... ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Old Sailor, 1790–1846
Date:
1836
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

19. Facetiæ and miscellanies / by William Hone ; with one hundred and twenty engravings, drawn by George Cruiksbank.

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Creator:
Hone, William, 1780–1842
Date:
1827
Physical Description:
14 pts. in 1 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

20. New Year's day : a winter's tale / by Mrs. Gore ; with illustrations by Geo. Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Gore, Mrs. (Catherine Grace Frances), 1799–1861
Date:
[1846]
Physical Description:
[4], 203, [1], [8] p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

21. The gentleman in black / with illustrations, by George Cruikshank ; engraved by J. Thompson and C. Landells.

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Creator:
Dalton, James, fl. 1831–1836
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
iv, 309 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

22. The adventures of Joseph Andrews / by Henry Fielding, Esq. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
xi, 336 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

23. Particulars and recommendations of the stadium, or British National Arena : for manly and defensive exercises, equestrian, chivalric, and aquatic games, and skilful and amusing pastimes : at the residence of the late Lord Cremorne : on a space of twenty-four acres, extending from the King's Road, Chelsea, to the Thames, and distant less that 2 1/2 miles from Piccadilly.

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Creator:
Beaufain, Charles Random de Bérenger, baron de
Date:
1834
Physical Description:
36 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

24. Ancient mysteries described : especially the English miracle plays, founded on apocryphal New Testatment story, extant among the unpublished manuscripts in the British Museum; including notices of ecclesiastical shows, the festivals of Fools and asses--The English boy bishop--The descent into hell--The lord mayor's show--The guildhall giants--Christmas carols, &c. / by William Hone ; with engravings on copper and wood.

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Creator:
Hone, William, 1780–1842
Date:
1823
Physical Description:
[2], 298, 2 p., [4] leaves of plates (1 folded) : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

25. The comic Blackstone / by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811–1856
Date:
1857
Physical Description:
xii, 252 p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

26. The wife, or, Women as they are : a domestic drama.

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Creator:
Knowles, James Sheridan, 1784–1862
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
ix, 84 pages, 4 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

27. The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels / by Thomas Ingoldsby, esquire ; with sixty illustrations by George Cruikshank, John Leech, and John Tenniel.

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Creator:
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
Date:
1865
Physical Description:
xiv, 511 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

28. A memoir of George Cruikshank / by Frederic G. Stephens ; and an Essay on the genius of George Cruikshank by William Makepeace Thackeray.

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Creator:
Stephens, Frederic George, 1828–1907
Date:
1891
Physical Description:
xii, 144 p. : ill., port. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

29. Talpa, or, The chronicles of a clay farm : an agricultural fragment / by C.W.H.

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Creator:
Hoskyns, Chandos Wren, 1812–1876
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
viii, 237, [3], 4 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

30. The life of Napoleon : a Hudibrastic poem in fifteen cantos / by Doctor Syntax ; embellished with thirty engravings by G. Cruikshank.

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Date:
1815
Physical Description:
260 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 26 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

31. Saint James's, or, The court of Queen Anne : an historical romance / by William Harrison Ainsworth, Esq., ; author of "The Tower of London," "Windsor Castle," etc. ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank ; in three volumes.

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Creator:
Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805–1882
Date:
1844
Physical Description:
3 v. : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

32. The life of Mansie Wauch : tailor in Dalkeith / written by himself.

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Creator:
Moir, D. M. (David Macbeth), 1798–1851
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
[8], 384 p., [8] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

33. Sunday in London / illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank ; and a few words by a friend of his ; with a copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's bill.

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Creator:
Wight, J. (John)
Date:
1833
Physical Description:
iv, 105 p., [11] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

34. The adventures of Oliver Twist, or, The parish boy's progress / by Charles Dickens ; with twenty-four illustrations on steel by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1846 [i.e. 1855?]
Physical Description:
xii, 311 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

35. The history of Amelia / by Henry Fielding ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank. ; in two volumes.

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Creator:
Fielding, Henry, 1707–1754
Date:
1832
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

36. George Cruikshank's omnibus : illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood ... / edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
1842
Physical Description:
[2], vi, [2], 300 p., [22] leaves of plates : ill., ports. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

37. The Ingoldsby legends, or, Mirth and marvels / by Thomas Ingoldsby ; with a portrait and twenty-five illustrations by Cruikshank, Leech and others.

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Creator:
Ingoldsby, Thomas, 1788–1845
Date:
1910
Physical Description:
lv, [1], 527 p. : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

38. The betting-book / by George Cruikshank ; with cuts.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
1852
Physical Description:
31, [1] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

39. Illustrations of time / by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
[1827]
Physical Description:
[7] leaves : chiefly ill. ; 28 x 38 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

40. Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect, and poems / plates by G. Cruikshank ; rendered intelligible to general readers by a literal interpretation, and the obsolete words explained by quotations from the most early of the English authors.

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Creator:
Bobbin, Tim, 1708–1786
Date:
1828
Physical Description:
viii, 184 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

41. The new Bath guide, or, Memoirs of the B-n-r-d family : in a series of poetical epistles / by Christopher Anstey, esq.

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Creator:
Anstey, Christopher, 1724–1805
Date:
1830
Physical Description:
lxxvi, 176 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

42. Rambles in the footsteps of Don Quixote / by the late H.D. Inglis ; with illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Inglis, Henry D. (Henry David), 1795–1835
Date:
1837
Physical Description:
[4], xii, 203, [1] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

43. Kit Bam's adventures, or, The yarns of an old mariner / by Mary Cowden Clarke ... ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Clarke, Mary Cowden, 1809–1898
Date:
1849
Physical Description:
[4], iv, 364, 16 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

44. Sketches by Boz : illustrative of every-day life, and every-day people : with forty illustrations / by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Dickens, Charles, 1812–1870
Date:
1839
Physical Description:
viii, 526 p., [39] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

45. Four hundred humorous illustrations / by George Cruikshank ; with portrait and biographical sketch.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
[190-?]
Physical Description:
416 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. port. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

46. The cat's tail : being the history of Childe Merlin : a tale / by the Baroness de Katzleben, authoress of other touching tales and pathetic pieces.

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Creator:
Southey, Caroline Bowles, 1786–1854
Date:
1831
Physical Description:
31 p., [3] leaves of plates : ill. ; 17 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

47. Der Freischütz, travestie / by Septimus Globus, Esq. ... ; with twelve etchings, by George Cruikshank, from drawings by an amateur; and the original tale whereon the German opera is founded.

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Creator:
Globus, Septimus
Date:
1824
Physical Description:
[4], 68 p., 12 leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

48. Burford cottage : and its robin-red-breast / by the author of Keeper's travels.

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Creator:
Kendall, Edward Augustus, 1776?-1842
Date:
1835
Physical Description:
[6], 476 p., [1] leaf of plates : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

49. Cinderella and the glass slipper / edited and illustrated with ten subjects ; designed and etched on steel by George Cruikshank.

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Date:
[1854]
Physical Description:
31 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

50. Frank Fairlegh, or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil ... / with thirty illustrations on steel, by George Cruikshank.

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Creator:
Smedley, Frank E. (Frank Edward), 1818–1864
Date:
1850
Physical Description:
[2], xii, [2], 496 p., [30] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer