Bombastes furioso : a burlesque tragic opera / by William Barnes Rhodes ; with designs by George Cruikshank.
Rhodes, William Barnes
Category
Books
Date
1830
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Dorneywood House and Gardens, Buckinghamshire
NT 3225406
Summary
Bibliographic description
34, [2] p : ill. ; 12mo (17 cm). Not indigenous - no NT ink stamp. Uniformly bound with: 'Tom Thumb, A Burletta' (1830), also illustrated by Cruikshank. Bookseller's listing pasted to blank prelim. Binding: Nineteenth-century polished mottled goatskin over boards on three raised bands with two false ones, spine tooled gilt in compartments with central four-pronged acorn motif and corner pieces, red labels, triple gilt fillet and corner stamps to boards, triple gilt fillet at board edges, gilt fillet between two gilt rolls at turn-ins, red endpapers. Binder's stamp: Bound by F. Bedford. Publisher's printed paper wrappers preserved bound-in.
Makers and roles
Rhodes, William Barnes George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878)