Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
O'Hara, Kane, 1714?-1782
Title:
Tom Thumb : a burletta, altered from Henry Fielding / by Kane O'Hara ; with designs by George Cruikshank.
Published / Created:
London : Thomas Rodd, 1830.
Physical Description:
34 p. : ill. ; 16 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR3605.O33 T86 1830
Yale Center for British Art, Gift of Gloria Scheuer

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Wood engravings by Samuel Williams, Thomas Williams, and George Bonner; after George Cruikshank.

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

First issue. Cf. Cohn.

Pages 29-30 misnumbered 21-22.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 615

BEIN 1978 1338: Original wrappers and advertising leaves bound in. Bookplate of Shepard Krech.

SML,Y J18 C888 3 1: 15 cm. Binder's title: Cruikshank illustrations, v. 1.

BAC: British Art Center copy bound in half brown morocco with marbled boards. Original paper wrappers bound in at end. Page 29 correctly numbered. Advertisement at end: 1 leaf (blank on verso) headed " Second Edition Just Published: Price 1s. 6d. 'Bombastes Furioso &c.'" Blank on verso. Lacks further advertisement described in Cohn.
Subject Terms:
Rodd, Thomas -- Publisher. | Lowndes and White -- Printer. | Krech, Shepard 1891– -- Bookplate. | Scheuer, Gloria -- Provenance.
Form/Genre:
Wood engravings -- 1830.
Contributors:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878, ill. | Bonner, G. W. (George Wilmot), 1796–1836, engraver | Williams, Samuel, 1788–1853, engraver. | Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800, engraver.