Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Rabelais, Robert, the younger
Title:
A nineteenth century, and familiar history of the lives, loves, and misfortunes of Abeillard and Heloisa : a matchless pair, who flourished in the twelfth century : a poem, in twelve cantos : illustrated with ten engravings / by Robert Rabelais, the younger.
Alternate Title(s):
Abeillard and Heloisa.
Published / Created:
London : Printed for J. Bumpus, 6, Holborn bars, 1819.
Physical Description:
xvii, 384 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5199 .R33 1819 Copy 1
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5199 .R33 1819 Copy 2
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5199 .R33 1819 Copy 3
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR5199 .R33 1819 Copy 4
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Illustrations by George Lewis and Robert Havell; after John Thurston and Thomas Landseer

Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 314, 315

BAC: British Art Center has 4 copies. Copy 1 and 2 are the Abbey copies. Copy 1, bound in calf, by Bedford, with colored plates. Copy 2, in similar binding by Bedford, with uncolored plates on pink paper. Copy 3 and 4 in original printed boards, as issued, with colored plates.

Plate 5 bound in as frontispiece.

A satire in Hudibrastic verse.

Printed by W. Wilson, 4, Greville-Street, London.
Subject Terms:
Verse satire, English | Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. | Bumpus, J. -- Publisher | Wilson, W. -- Printer | Bedford, F. -- Bookbinder | Crewe Hall -- Bookplate (copy 1 & 2) | Cohn, A. M. -- Bookplate (copy 4)
Form/Genre:
Aquatints -- 1819 | Aquatints -- Hand-colored -- 1819
Contributors:
Lewis, George Robert, 1782–1871, engraver | Havell, Robert, -1832, engraver | Landseer, Thomas, 1795–1880, ill. | Thurston, John, 1774–1822, ill.