illustrated book;
print
- Museum number
- 1871,0211.117-136
- Description
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Frances Milton Trollope, 'The mother's manual; or, Illustrations of matrimonial economy. An Essay in Verse. With twenty plates' (London: Treuttel, Wurtz and Richter) 1833; containing frontispiece showing the 'mother's manual' open on a stand, a woman putting books on a shelf in the back, title-page with vignette of a wedding, and 18 pen lithographs by Heideman after Hervieu, titled: 1. 'A cordial embrace', 2. 'The dancing master seemed inclined to woo', 3. 'This dreadful Locke has almost turned my brain', 4. 'Now tell me _was it learning married you', 5. 'Les tableaux vivans', 6. 'Prodigiously good', 7. 'Go to the study John', 8. Soh! _ Here they are', 9. 'This girl has some good points', 10. 'You canot think what brilliance throwa over the tedium of a stale charade', 11. 'An ill matched pair of misses', 12. 'Amelia dances into a General arms', 13. 'A piping Marquis was Louisa's fate', 14. 'I soon withdrew', 15. 'But her rich bobby's a prodigious sot', 16. 'Beneath the shelter of her sable locks, she penned a rhapsody in praise of rocks', 17. 'The truth on that point it is time to know', 18. 'All shall be rewarded with the play'. Together with table of contents and preface. Bound at the BM bindery in green bookcloth, with gold lettering on spine.
Lithograph
- Production date
- 1833
- Dimensions
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Height: 235 millimetres (approx. sheet size of each page)
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Width: 145 millimetres
- $Inscriptions
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- Curator's comments
- Cataloguing supported by the Elizabeth Cayzer Charitable Trust
- Location
- Not on display
- Associated titles
Associated Title: The Mother's Manual
- Acquisition date
- 1871
- Department
- Prints and Drawings
- Registration number
- 1871,0211.117-136