Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Old sportsman
Title:
Life in the country, or, Eccentricities and oddities exhibiting real and original scenes of rural life / by an old sportsman.
Alternate Title(s):
Life in the country
Published / Created:
London : Printed for J. Johnston, 98, Cheapside; and A.M. Graham, College Green, Dublin, [1825?]
Physical Description:
48 p., [2] leaves of plates : ill. ; 23 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
GT3471.G7 O43 1825
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Cover title.

With hand-colored aquatints bound in before text.

"Entirely unknown part publication, no more parts seem to have been published."--Cf. Abbey.

Date of publication from Abbey.

At head of title: An entirely new work, dedicated to the King. No. 1. (To be completed in eight monthly numbers, embellished with plates by the first artists, highly coloured) Price 2s.

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 309

BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In original wrappers. Verso of back wrapper: advertisements for "Raising the wind", G.G. Carey's "New experiments", "The Dublin mall."
Subject Terms:
Country life -- Great Britain. | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Satire, English. | Johnson, J. -- Publisher. | Graham, A. M. -- Publisher.
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- [1825?]