The pigeons. : Dedicated to all the flats, and showing the artifices, success, and crimes of gaming, gamesters, and gambling houses ... / By the author of "The Greeks." ; Illustrated with six coloured plates.
Hellēn
Category
Books
Date
1817
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124737
Summary
Bibliographic description
xii, [13]-167, [1] p., 6 leaves of colour plates ; 12mo. Plate 6 bound as frontispiece, not following p. 116 (as in 'Directions for placing the plates', p. 167). Pencil checkmarks against list of plates on p. 167 and pencil note "frontis" against plate 6. Bookseller's pencil note "Cruikshank" and price "£2 2 0" on front free endpaper verso. Pencil note on rear free endpaper "CP JH" [presumably "Collated perfect"]. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth- century full green morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; spine gilt tooled, lettered direct: 'The pigeons'; double gilt fillet on board edges; elaborately gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; crimson endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Hellēn, author George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator