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Title(s)
Model men / modelled by Horace Mayhew ; sculptured by H.G. Hine.
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Additional Title(s)
Mayhew's model men, women & children
Model men, women & children
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Published/Created
New York : Harper & Brothers, publishers, 82 Cliff Street, [1848?]
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Physical Description
2 volumes in 1 (x, [3], 14-114; viii, [1], 10-114, [6] pages) : illustratons ; 16 cm
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR4989.M57 M64 1848
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Bert Boyson
Accessible in the Study Room [Request] -
Copyright Status
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Full YALE Library Record
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Classification
Books
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Notes
Date from NUC.
Second part has special illustrated title page with title "Model women and children, modelled by Horace Mayhew, sculptured by H.G. Hine"; with separate pagination and signature sequences.
Cover title: Mayhew's model men women & children.
Signatures: [v. 1]: 1⁴ 2-3⁸ 4⁴ 5-8⁸ 9²( -9₂); [v 2]: A⁴ B-C⁸ D⁴ E-F⁸ G⁴ H-I⁸.
Last [5] pages of Model women and children are blank.
Illustrated throughout with line drawings of different types of people described in texts; full-page frontispiece for each title (the frontispiece for "Model women and children" is used as cover illustration).
Includes [1] page of publisher's advertisements on page [1] of final sequence.
National union catalog, pre-1956 imprints, 371:695
BAC: British Art Center copy bound in publisher's original publisher's brown cloth. Owner's label: J.C. Kiernan ... Rahway, New Jersey. -
Subject Terms
Children -- Humor. | Children. | English wit and humor. | English wit and humor. | Kiernan, J. C. -- Bookplate. | Men -- Humor. | Men. | Satire, English. | Satire, English. | Women -- Humor. | Women.
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Form/Genre
Humor. | Publishers' advertisements. | Publishers' cloth bindings (Binding) -- New York (State) -- New York -- 19th century. | Wood engravings -- 1848.
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