19 volumes : illustrations (some color) ; 14-17 cm.
Description
Text by various authors respresented by the pseudonym Rigdum Funnidos, gent. Subtitle varies. Imprint varies: 1841-1842: Imprinted for Tilt and Bogue, bibliopolists, in Fleet Street. "Mr. Tilt first conceived the idea ... and at various times there were engaged upon it ... Thackeray, Albert Smith, the Brothers Mayhew, the late Robert Brough, Gilbert A Beckett ..." Cf. "Preliminary" to 1878 reprint (London: Chatto and Windus). Editor varies: Rigdum Funnidos, gent. (pseud), 1835-1847; 1848-1849, Horace Mayhew; 1850-1852, Henry Mayhew; 1853, Robert Brough. "Adorned with a dozen of 'righte merrie' cuts, pertaining to the months, sketched and etched by George Cruikshank, and divers humorous cuts by other hands." Description based on: 1835; title from title page.
Mr. Bull's Glass Of Water [page 38] ; A Good Supply of Water - or John Bull - inundated with the various schemes & streams of - "water, water, every where" [etching]
Our President Of France [page 44] ; The Triumphal procession of the new President of the French (Mons-Jullien) with entire new Politics & Polkas!! [etching]
