Physical Description: [227] leaves
Scope and Content Note
[Frontispiece of "The late Mr. George Cruikshank."] -- Some
unpublished sketches by George Cruikshank, [from The Strand magazine,
n.d., p. [183]-191] -- [Original pencil sketch with annotation] --
[Original a.l.s. dated May 26, 1875] [one page] -- "The inundation,
1847-8" [in ms.] [4 etchings] -- "The drunkard's children. A sequel to
the bottle." [8 folded plates; woodcut engravings] -- The comic
almanack, for 1848 / by Ridcum Funnidos. London: David Bogue, 1848 [6
etchings] -- The magic of kindness / by the Brothers Mayhew. London:
Darton and Co., 1849 [4 etchings] -- "Her Majesty's theatre" [1849,
dated in ms.] [one vignette] -- "Brighton Lodging House, 1849" [in ms.]
[2 etchings, col.] -- The comic almanack / edited by Horace Mayhew.
London: David Bogue, 1849 [t.p. only, on original col. wrapper] --
"Oliver Twist, 1850," [in ms.] [frontispiece only] -- Frank Farleigh;
or, Scenes from the life of a private pupil, London: A. Hall, Virtue,
& Co., 1850 [30 etchings and one original pictorial printed wrapper]
-- The comic almanack and diary / edited by Henry Mayhew. London: David
Bogue, 1850 [7 etchings, one folded and colored] -- The world's show,
1851; or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family ... / by
Henry Mayhew. London: David Bogue, 1851 [10 plates, one folded] -- The
comic almanack and diary for 1851 [original linen cover] -- The comic
almanack and diary / edited by Henry Mayhew. London: David Bogue, 1851
[6 etchings] -- "The betting book, 1852" [in ms.] [4 vignettes] --
"Talpa, 1852" [in ms.] [25 vignettes] -- "Comic almanack, 1852" [in ms.]
[one etching, folded and colored] -- Uncle Tom's Cabin / by Harriet
Beecher Stowe. London: John Cassell, 1852 [27 woodcuts] -- "Comic
almanack, 1853" [in ms.] [one etching, folded and colored] -- "Jack and
the beanstalk, 1854" [in ms.] [6 etchings] -- "Tobacco leaves" ["Geo.
Cruikshank's Mag., 1854" in ms.] [one etching] -- "The provocations of
Miss Polly C." [one etching] – "Passing events, or; The tale of
the comet of 1853" [one folded plate] -- Cinderella and the glass
slipper, 1854 [2 engraved vignettes on one leaf] -- My brother, or; The
man of many friends / by an old author. London: Samson, Low, & Son,
1855 [frontispiece on same leaf of t.p.] -- "Lorrimer Littlegood,
1855-6" [in ms.] [12 etchings] -- "Slice of bread and butter, 1857" [in
ms.] [3 vignettes] -- Sir John Falstaff Knight. London: Longman, Brown,
Green, Longmans and Roberts, 1857 [11 etchings including t.p., and one
vignette; "Life of John Falstaff, 1858" in ms.] -- Stenelaus and Amylda,
a Christmas legend. London: Griffith and Farran, 1858 [3 vignettes on
one leaf] -- Old faces in new masks / by Robert Blakey, Ph.D. London: W.
Kent & Co., 1859 [one plate with t.p.] -- "The drunkard's house,
1860" [in ms.] [two etchings of same print, one hand colored] -- The
oyster. London: Trübner & Co., [1861] [2 pictorial col.
wrappers including t.p. and one woodcut] -- "Puck on Pegasus, 1861" [in
ms.] [one etching] -- What put my pipe out, or; Incidents in the life of
a clergyman. London: S. W. Partridge, 1862 [6 leaves, 4 woodcuts;
includes original printed, pictorial wrapper] -- A discovery concerning
ghosts; with a rap at the "spirit-rappers" / by George Cruikshank.
London: Frederick Arnold, 1863 [9 woodcuts; title from t.p. printed on
blue original wrapper] -- "Ingoldsby legends, 1864" [in ms.] [24
woodcuts] -- "Pilgrim's progress, 1865" [in ms.] [2 woodcuts] --"Poems
by the knight of Morar, 1866" [in ms.] [one etching] -- The British bee
hive. London: George Cruikshank, [1867] [page proof] -- The Savage Club
papers. London: Tinsley Brothers, [1867] [one woodcut vignette] --
"Unpublished" [in ms.] [two untitled etchings of same print, one hand
colored] -- "Fairy connoisseurs inspecting Mr. Frederick Locker's
collection of drawings" [1868] [one etching] -- "Private plate etched
for Sir Wm. Fraser, 1869" [in ms.] [one etched plate] -- Plate "designed
by George Cruikshank to represent his highly esteemed and worthy friend,
the late Thomas Ingoldsby..." [one etched plate] -- "Private plate
etched for Poems by the King of Morar, 1870" [in ms.] [one etched plate]
-- "The Leader, of the Parisian Blood Red Republic, or the Infernal
Fiend!" [folded and etched plate, colored] -- Guess me... / compiled and
arranged by Frederick D'Arros Planche; illustrated by George Cruikshank
and others. London: Dean and Son, [1872] [pictorial t.p. for second
edition only] -- Boons and blessings / by Mrs. S. C. Hall. London:
National Temperance Publication Depôt, [1873] [one woodcut] --
Lob lie-by-the-fire, or; The luck of Lingborough and other tales / by
Juliana Horatia Ewing. London: George Bell and Sons, 1874 [3 prints] --
An old story; a temperance tale in reverse / by S. C. Hall. London:
Virtue, Spalding, and Co., [1875] [one woodcut] -- The rose and the lily
/ by Mrs. Octavian Blewitt. London: Chatto and Windus, 1877 [one
etching] -- "View of the house in which G. Cruikshank died" [one
etching, hand colored] -- "The venerable George: he painted in oils the
virtues of water" from The Hornet, dated Dec. 6th, 1871 [caricature on
one folded plate]