A handbook for posterity, or, Recollections of "Twiddle Twaddle" / by George Cruikshank, about himself and other people ; a series of sixty-two "etchings on glass," with descriptive notes.

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Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, A handbook for posterity, or, Recollections of "Twiddle Twaddle" , 1896

Creator:: Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Title(s):: A handbook for posterity, or, Recollections of "Twiddle Twaddle" / by George Cruikshank, about himself and other people ; a series of sixty-two "etchings on glass," with descriptive notes.
Additional Title(s):: Handbook for posterity
Recollections of "Twiddle Twaddle"
Published/Created:: London : W.T. Spencer ..., 1896.
Physical Description:: xii p., [60] leaves, [1], 60 leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:: Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1479.C78 H36 1896
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
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Copyright Status:: Copyright Not Evaluated
Full Orbis Record:: http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/9369740
Classification:: Books
Notes:: "Only 200 copies of this book have been printed ... each one numbered and initialed by the engraver and publisher."--Colophon.
Preface type-signed: Charles Hancock.
Engraved vignette on title page.
Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 815
BAC: British Art Center copy is one of 100 (out of series) with proofs on India paper. Bound in half calf.
Subject Terms:: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Etching -- Specimens -- 1896.
Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
Spencer, W.T. -- Publisher.
Contributors:: Hancock, Charles, engraver.
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