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Title(s)
Glasgow looking glass.
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Additional Title(s)
Heath's comic looking-glass; or, mirror of mirth.
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Published/Created
Glasgow : Printed, published & sold by John Watson, [1825]
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Physical Description
1 v. : ill. ; 45 cm.
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Holdings
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Folio A 2010 24
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Copyright Status
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Full Alma Record
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Classification
Periodicals
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Notes
BEIN 1998 Folio S2: From the library of Ralph Hodgson; with ms. notes by him.
Conceived and illustrated by William Heath.
Europe's first caricature magazine. Cf. Bryant. Dictionary of British cartoonists and caricaturists, 1730-1980.
First seven issues are lithographed. The remainder are etched.
Reproduced from manuscript copy.
Title varies: June 11-Aug. 6, 1825, Glasgow looking glass: Aug. 28-Sept. 3, 1825: Northern looking glass, or litho's album; Sept. 17, 1825-Feb. 20, 1826, Northern looking glass.
Fairman, Elisabeth R. Pleasures and pastimes, 18 -
Subject Terms
Caricatures and cartoons -- Great Britain -- Periodicals. | Hodgson, Ralph, 1871–1962 -- Ms. notes. | Hodgson, Ralph, 1871–1962 -- Ownership. | Satire, British -- Periodicals. | Scottish wit and humor -- Periodicals. | Watson, John -- Publisher.
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Form/Genre
Annotations (Provenance) -- 20th century. | Etchings -- Hand-colored -- 1825. | Lithographs -- Hand-colored -- 1825.
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Export
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IIIF Manifest
Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, 1990-02-21 - 1990-04-29) [YCBA Objects in the Exhibition]
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