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.
A gentleman endeavouring to keep "number one" out of "St. Paul's church yard"! [etching] ; Scraps of Information, Useful and Ornamental, (The Latter Through the Kind Assistance of Mr. H. G. Hine) [page 3]
A Pack of Knaves or A "Packed" meeting of the "Knowing Cards" of the Betting-Shop interest to consider & adopt the best Shuffling Tricks to carry on their Game! [etching] ; May [page 13]
