Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Mayhew, Augustus, 1826-1875
Title:
"The greatest plague of life", or, The adventures of a lady in search of a good servant / by one who has been "almost worried to death" ; illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Alternate Title(s):
Greatest plague of life
Published / Created:
London : David Bogue, 86 Fleet Street, [1847].
Physical Description:
[6] parts : ill. ; 19 cm.
Collection:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Credit Line:
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Part six contains the title-page for the bound volume. It indicates the work was "edited by the Brothers Mayhew."
Subject Terms:
Household employees -- Great Britain -- Fiction. | Bogue, D. -- Publisher. | Savill, T. C. -- Printer. | Root & Son -- Bookbinder. | Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Etchings -- 1847. | Glyphographs -- 1847.
Contributors:
Mayhew, Henry, 1812–1887. | Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878, ill.