The King of the beggars, or, The surprising adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew : with an account of his travels & voyages. Robert Cruikshank's titles & colored frontispieces to chap books ; 3
Bibliographic Citation:
The King of the beggars, or, The surprising adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew : with an account of his travels & voyages. London : Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., No. 10, Newgate-Street, [between 1822 and 1824]
Alternative Title:
Surprising adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew
Publisher:
Printed by and for Hodgson & Co., No. 10, Newgate-Street, [between 1822 and 1824]
Notes:
  • Date of issue from t.p. imprint address and P.A.H. Brown, London publishers and printers, p. 91.
  • Rare Books and Special Collections has two copies. Copy 1 has title page and frontispiece only, copy 2 has frontispiece only.
  • Copy 1: Coloured frontispiece in five panels (together 15.2 x 19.9 cm), "The King of the Beggars." Each part also has separate caption; Pub. Aug. 1, 1823 by Hodgson & Co., 10 Newgate Street.
  • Copy 2: Coloured frontispiece in one panel (15.8 x 18.9 cm), "The various characters assumed by Bamfylde Moore Carew," Marks fect.
  • Hodgson's list of pamphlets on p. [1] of wrappers of copy 2.
  • "Sixpence."
  • Hand-coloured frontispieces probably by Robert Cruikshank.
  • Copy in McGill Library's Rare Books and Special Collections: 2 in a collection of 57 title pages and frontispieces from 1820 to 1828 that represent a better technique than some earlier examples as the strong colours are not applied as carelessly as some of the earlier and cheaper booklets. Copy 2 is unnumbered; accession number for both copies: 359087.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 18 cm.
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Miscellaneous
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
Copyright:
All images licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 - http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/deed.en_US. For information, please contact Rare Books and Special Collections, McGill University Library.
Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=8094
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_R63_no_3_elf