book; print; book-illustration

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book; print; book-illustration

Object Type: book; print; book-illustration
Museum number: 1856,0209.1468
Description: Reid 4827. Fourth edition of an illustrated book entitled 'Mornings at Bow Street.' with illustrations by George Cruikshank. In brown textile binding. With an etched frontispiece illustration bound (Reid 1280) which represents three Cupids in a cage, the centre one dressed as a fop, having a glass to his eye, with a quotation below: "Sweet birds that love the noise of folly/ most musical, most melancholy." Lettered on the title-page: "Mornings at Bow Street: A selection of the most humorous and entertaining reports which have appeared in the Morning Herald by J. Wight, Bow-Street Reporter to the Morning Herald. With Twenty-one illustrations by George Cruikshank.' With the quotation: "They did gather humours of men dayly wherever they came- Aubrey MS." With a vignette illustration on the title-page: Reid 3369. 'The white sergeant ; or petticoat government.' The publisher's details are printed below: "London, Printed for Thomas Tegg & Son, Cheapside. MDCCCXXXVIII." With wood engraved vignette illustrations throughout the text, see references and comments. 1824 Etched frontispiece and wood engraved illustrations to a letterpress book
Producer name: Published by: Thomas Tegg; Printed by: Bradbury & Co (Printers of the text); Print made by: George Cruikshank; Block cut by: John Thompson (For Reid 3358, 3359, 3366, 3372, 3373 and 3377); Block cut by: Henry White (For 3360); Block cut by: Robert Branston (For Reid 3361, 3362, 3363, 3365, 3367, 3368,3371, 3374); Block cut by: William Hughes (For Reid 3364, 3370, 3376 and 3378.)
School/style
Production date: 1824
Production place: Published in: London (England)
Materials: paper; cardboard (binding); textile (binding)
Technique: etching; wood-engraving; letterpress
Dimensions: Height: 172 millimetres (approx. page height); Width: 114 millimetres (approx. page width)
Curator's comments: See Reid 4827, originally printed for Charles Baldwyn with the third edition published by Hatchard, Piccadilly. Proofs issued in 1824. See Cohn 845. A sequel, 'More Mornings at Bow Street' published in 1827.
Bibliographic references: Reid 1871 / A descriptive catalogue of the works of George Cruikshank (4827); Cohn 1924 / George Cruikshank, catalogue raisonné (844)
Location: Not on display
Subjects: police; police station; humour; society/human life
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Acquisition name
Department: Prints and Drawings
Registration number: 1856,0209.1468

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