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1. The life of an actor / by Pierce Egan, author of "Life in London," "Tom and Jerry," "A Musical Drama," etc. ; dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. ; the poetical descriptions by T. Greenwood ; embellished with twenty-seven characteristic scenes, etched by Theodore Lane ; enriched also with several original designs on wood, executed by Mr. Thompson.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xvi, 272 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22695343400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

2. An academy for grown horsemen : containing the completest instructions, for walking, trotting, cantering, galloping, stumbling, and tumbling / illustrated with copper plates, and adorned with a portrait of the author / by Geoffrey Gambado, Esq. ; Riding Master, Master of the Horse, and Grand Equerry to the Doge of Venice.

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Creator:
Bunbury, Henry William, 1750–1811
Date:
1st Jany. 1825
Physical Description:
xxvii, [2], 30-75, [4], lxxx-xcix, [2], 102-201, [1] pages, [27] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 16 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22684601410008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

3. Le vampire.

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Date:
[approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 écran-panorama ; screen 24 x 21 cm, height 40 cm inclusive of wooden handle
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22903333840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

4. Journal of a residence and travels in Colombia during the years 1823 and 1824 / by Capt. Charles Stuart Cochrane ...

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Creator:
Cochrane, Charles Stuart. no_linkage
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., map ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22660279810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

5. An account of the grand musical festival, held in September, 1823, in the cathedral church of York : for the benefit of the York County Hospital, and the general infirmaries at Leeds, Hull, and Sheffield : to which is prefixed, a sketch of the rise and progress of musical festivals in Great Britain : with biographical and historical notes / by John Crosse, F.S.A., F.R.S.L., M.G.S. ...

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Creator:
Crosse, John, 1786–1833
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
vii, [1], 436, xxvi, [2] p., [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : ill., plans ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22770324510008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

6. [Panorama depicting parkland on the outskirts of Paris].

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Date:
[approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 écran-panorama ; screen 22 x 20 cm, height 37 cm inclusive of wooden handle
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22983300710008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

7. Sportsman's slang : a new dictionary of terms used in affairs of the turf, the ring, the chase, the pit, of bon-ton, and the varieties of life : forming the completest and most authentic lexicon balatronicum hitherto offered to the notice of the sporting world : for elucidating words and phrases that are necessarily, or purposely, rendered cramp, mutative, and unintelligible, outside their respective spheres : interspersed with anecdotes and whimsies, with tart quotations, and rum-ones, with examples, proofs and monitory precepts useful and proper for novices, flats, and yokels / by Jon Bee, Esq. ...

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Creator:
Badcock, John, active 1816–1830
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[2], xvi, 222 [that is 202] pages, [5] leaves of plates ([1] folded) : illustrations ; 18 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22852275880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

8. Travels in the gold and diamond districts of Brazil : describing the methods of working the mines, the natural productions, agriculture, and commerce, and the customs and manners of the inhabitants : to which is added a brief account of the practice of amalgamation practised in Peru and Chili [sic] / by John Mawe.

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Creator:
Mawe, John, 1764–1829
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
x, [2], 493 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22663497290008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

9. Collinso furioso, or, Matters "to tatters" / from drawings by M.E.

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Date:
July. 1825
Physical Description:
[26] p., [1], 11, [1] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22667244700008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

10. The beauties of the Isle of Wight : containing an account of its watering places, a minute description of Ryde, and a direction to the most favourite walks in its vicinity : together with a view of the principal toursin the island, and an outline of its general history.

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
100 p., [1] leaf of plate (folded) : ill. ; 20 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22683169030008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

11. Sporting anecdotes, original and selected : including numerous characteristic portraits of persons in every walk of life, who have acquired notoriety from their achievements on the turf, at the table, and in the diversions of the field : with sketches of various animals of the chase : to which is added, an account of noted pedestrians, trotting-matches, cricketers, &c. : the whole forming a complete delineation of the sporting world / by Pierce Egan.

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Creator:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, [4], 592 pages, [6] leaves of plates, [1] folded : illustrations, portraits ; 22 cm
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22977377080008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

12. Liston's characters : six coloured engravings.

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Date:
1826
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22642014850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

13. Narrative of a visit to Brazil, Chile, Peru, and the Sandwich islands, during the years 1821 and 1822. With miscellaneous remarks on the past and present state, and political prospects of those countries. By Gilbert Farquhar Mathison, esq.

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Creator:
Mathison, Gilbert Farquhar
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xii p., 1 l., 478 p. col. front., plates (part col.) fold. map. 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22974644660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

14. Sketches of Corsica, or, A journal written during a visit to that island, in 1823 : with an outline of its history, and specimens of the language and poetry of the people / by Robert Benson ...

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Creator:
Benson, Robert, 1797–1844
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
195 p., [5] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22902666400008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

15. Il perfetto cavaliere : opera corredata di stampe miniate rappresentanti le varie specie de' cavalli, incominciando dal selvaggio, co' loro differenti mantelli, ed accompagnata dalla Storia naturale del cavallo scritta da Buffon; dalla Scuola di cavalleria di Guerinière, contenente la conoscenza, l'instruzione e la conservazione del medesimo, con nuove aggiunte tratte da più recenti autori; da alcune osservazioni sul tipo di bellezza fissatogli da più celebri artisti sì antichi che moderni, da tutti i migliori squarci con cui celebrollo la poesia : ed infine da notizie storiche de' più famosi cavalli.

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Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
2 v. ([8], 567 p.; [2] p., 24, 52 leaves of plates) : ill. (some col.), plans ; 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22734293790008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

16. A picturesque and descriptive tour in the mountains of the High Pyrenees : comprising twenty-four views of the most interesting scenes, from original drawings taken on the spot; with some account of the bathing establishments in that department of France / by J. Hardy.

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Creator:
Hardy, Joseph. no_linkage
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
vii, 84 p., [24] leaves of plates : ill., map ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22617782180008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

17. The trial of the Rev. Alexander Fletcher, A.M., before the Lord Chief Justice of the Court of Common Sense, and a special jury / by the Author of The trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A.M.

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Creator:
Author of The trial of the Rev. Edward Irving, A.M
Date:
MDCCCXXV [1825]
Physical Description:
8, 111, 24 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22761471900008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

18. Travels in western Africa, in the years 1818, 19, 20, and 21, from the river Gambia, through Woolli, Bondoo, Galam, Kasson, Kaarta, and Foolidoo, to the river Niger. By Major William Gray, and the late Staff Surgeon Dochard. With a map, drawings, and costumes, illustrative of those countries ...

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Creator:
Gray, William, Major. no_linkage
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xv, [1], 413 p. front. (port.) illus., plates, fold. map. 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22666761660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

19. British castles, or, A compendious history of the ancient military structures of Great Britain / by T. H. Fielding, esq. ; illustrated by numerous views of some of the most interesting castles in Great Britain.

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Creator:
Fielding, T. H. (Theodore Henry), 1781–1851
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
vi, 72 [i.e.73] p., [25] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22934555310008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

20. A picturesque tour through the Isle of Wight / by Charles Raye, Esq. ; illustrated by numerous views.

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Creator:
Raye, Charles, no_linkage
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[52] p., [24] leaves of plates : ill. ; 22 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22937962000008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

21. Travels in the Timannee, Kooranko and Soolima countries, in Western Africa / by Major Alexander Gordon Laing.

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Creator:
Laing, Alexander Gordon. no_linkage
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
x, [2], 465 p., [8] leaves of plates (some folded) : ill., map ; 22 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22728860970008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

22. Views in and near Weymouth / drawn and published by J.W. Upham.

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Creator:
Upham, John William, 1772–1828
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
3 pt. : all ill. ; 23 x 29 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22888408230008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

23. A kettle of fish / by Flibbertigibbet.

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Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[12] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22761515810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

24. Memoirs of Harriette Wilson / written by herself ; in four volumes.

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Creator:
Wilson, Harriette, 1786–1846
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
4 v. : ill., ports. ; 15 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897423660008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

25. A practical essay on the art of colouring, and painting landscapes in water colours, with ten illustrative engravings / by John Heaviside Clark.

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Creator:
Clark, John Heaviside, ca. 1770–1863
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[4], 28 p., X leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22871684620008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

26. Select views in Sicily : accompanied by an historical and descriptive account / translated from the original published at Paris by Mr. J.F. D'Ostervald.

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Creator:
La Salle, Achille Étienne Gigault de, 1772–1855
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[58] p., [36] leaves of plates : ill. ; 32 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22642011800008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

27. Paris lions and London tigers / by Harriette Wilson ; illustrated with twelve colored plates.

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Creator:
Wilson, Harriette, 1786–1846
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
231, [1] p., [12] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22897492720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

28. The Manx sketch book, or, Beauties of the Isle of Man : in a series of lithographic prints : no. 1 / edited by T. Ashe ...

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[15] leaves, [15] leaves of plates : ill. ; 16 x 25 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22666750720008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund

29. Airy nothings, or, Scraps and naughts, and odd-cum-shorts : in a circumbendibus hop, step, and jump / by Olio Rigmaroll ; drawn and written by M.E. Esq. ; engraved by Geo. Hunt.

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Creator:
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[2], 73, [1] p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. ; 30 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22635496060008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

30. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

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Creator:
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
1 folded leaf ([16] p.) : all ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22765318940008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

31. Geographical memoirs on New South Wales by various hands : containing an account of the surveyor general's late expedition to two new ports, the discovery of Moret on Bay River with the adventures for seven months there of two shipwrecked men, a route from Bathurst to Liverpool Plains : together with other papers on the aborigines, the geology, the botany, the timber, the astronomy, and the meteorology of New South Wales and Van Diemen's Land / edited by Barron Field.

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Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xvi, 504 p., [7] leaves of plates (some folded.) : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22918082160008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

32. Life in the country, or, Eccentricities and oddities exhibiting real and original scenes of rural life / by an old sportsman.

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Creator:
Old sportsman. no_linkage
Date:
[1825?]
Physical Description:
48 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22642027760008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

33. Gaieté de Paris / by George Cruikshank; or The rambles of an English party through the French metropolis; delineated in twenty-one characteristic engravings. To which are added, letter-press descriptions of real life in the vortex of that chasse ennui. By W.H. Ireland, member of the Atheneum of Sciences and Arts, at paris; author of the Life of Napoleon ; &c. &c.

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Creator:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878
Date:
[1826]
Physical Description:
11, [1] p., [20] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 x 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709744850008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

34. The life of a nobleman.

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Creator:
Dawe, George, 1781–1829
Date:
[ca. 1825]
Physical Description:
[9] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 31 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22642062050008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

35. Portraits of the winning horses of the Great St. Leger Stakes, at Doncaster : from the year 1815 to the year 1824, inclusive.

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Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
[26] p., [10] leaves of plates : col. ill. ; 66 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22652057100008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

36. Topographical sketches of Brighthelmston and its neighbourhood / by E.W. Brayley ... ; illustrated with twelve engravings by R. Havell, jun.

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Creator:
Brayley, E. W. (Edward Wedlake), 1773–1854
Date:
[1825]
Physical Description:
82, [2] p., [13] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts

37. Here and there over the water : being cullings in a trip to the Netherlands : (The field of battle and monuments--Waterloo, &c.) / by Omnium Gatherum ; drawn and written by M. E. ... ; engraved by George Hunt.

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Creator:
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
34 p., [27] leaves of plates : ill. ; 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22695407880008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

38. A voyage towards the South Pole, performed in the years 1822-'24 : containting an examination of the Antarctic Sea, to the seventy-foruth degree of latitude : and a visit to Tierra del Fuego, with a particular account of the inhabitants : to which is added, much useful information on the coasting, navigation of Cape Horn, and the adjacent lands : with charts of harbours, &c / by James Weddell ...

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Creator:
Weddell, James, 1787–1834
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
iv, 276 p., [4] leaves of plate (some folded) : ill., maps ; 23 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22914446440008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

39. City of Rome [graphic].

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Creator:
Sutherland, Thomas, approximately 1785–approximately 1825
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
1 print : hand-colored aquatint ; sheets end-to-end 28 x 338 cm, rolled (in wooden drum) to 28 x 9 cm (scroll format)
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22829310140008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

40. Cuentos de duendes y aparecidos : compuestos con el obgeto espreso de desterrar las preocupaciones vulgares de apariciones : adornados con seis estampas iluminadas / traducidos del ingles por D. José de Urcullu.

No cover image available
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xviii, 371, [7] p., [6] leaves of plates : ill. ; 18 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22709709840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

41. Ermenonville.

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Date:
[approximately 1825?]
Physical Description:
1 écran-panorama ; screen 20 x 22 cm, height 36 cm inclusive of wooden handle
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22983302820008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

42. Travels in South America, during the years 1819-20-21 : containing an account of the present state of Brazil, Buenos Ayres, and Chile.

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Creator:
Caldcleugh, Alexander, -1858
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
2 v. : ill., maps ; 21 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22843981840008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

43. Matrimonial ladder, or, Such things are / drawn by M.E. Esq.

No cover image available
Creator:
Egerton, M., active 1824–1827
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
[23] leaves of plates : chiefly ill. ; 28 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22695375810008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

44. The art of drawing in its various branches : exemplified in a course of twenty-eight progressive lessons ... / by Thomas Smith.

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Creator:
Smith, Thomas, fl. 1825
Date:
1825
Physical Description:
xiii, [3], 121, [12] p., [17] leaves of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
22843401220008651|Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

45. The English spy: an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. Drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle. The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank ...

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Creator:
Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788–1868
Date:
1825-1826
Physical Description:
2 v. col. front., ill., col. plates. 27 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts