Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Rhodes, William Barnes, 1772-1826
Title:
Bombastes furioso : a burlesque tragic opera / by William Barnes Rhodes ; with designs by George Cruikshank.
Published / Created:
London : Thomas Rodd, Great Newport Street, and T. Griffiths, Wellington Street, Strand, 1830.
Physical Description:
34, [2] p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5221.R7 B66 1830
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Without music.

Subsequently produced under title: Artaxominous the Great, cf. W.D. Adams A dict. of drama, v. 1, p. 182.

Cruikshank's designs engraved on wood by G.W. Bonner, William Chester Walker, Samuel Williams, and Thomas Williams.

Printed by Lowndes and White, Crane Street, Fleet Street.

Engraved title page vignette and cover illustration differ.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 692

BEIN 1978 1362: Plates and frontispiece in 2 states, uncolored and colored.

BEIN 1978 1362: Original wrappers bound in.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in half maroon leather with marbled boards. Illustrations uncolored. Original cream printed paper wrappers bound in at end.
Subject Terms:
Rodd, Thomas -- Publisher. | Griffiths, T. -- Publisher. | Lowndes and White -- Printer. | Krech, Alvin W. -- Bookplate. | Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1830.
Contributors:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878, ill. | Bonner, G. W. (George Wilmot), 1796–1836, engraver. | Walker, William Chester, engraver. | Williams, Samuel, 1788–1853, engraver. | Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800, engraver.