Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect; and poems. / Plates by G. Cruikshank. Rendered intelligible to general readers by a literal interpretation and the obsolete words explained by quotations from the most early of the English authors.
Tim Bobbin (1708-1786)
Category
Books
Date
1828
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3124781
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, 184 p., [6] leaves of plates ; 8vo. Bookseller's pencil notes on front free endpaper verso: "Cruikshank" and £5.5.0". Pencil note at head of p. 184 "CP. JH." [presumably "Collated perfect"]. Pencil numbers on rear free endpaper erased, illegible. Ephemera: loosely inserted clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy (price cut out). 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 straight-grained red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect.'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins;' gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Tim Bobbin (1708-1786), author George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator