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 3246050
Summary
Bibliographic description
Sixth edition. xii, [1], 14-167, [1] p., 6 leaves of plates ; 12mo. Pencil ticks against list of plates under "Directions for binder" at foot of p. 167; pencil note "front." indicates that plate 6 intended to face p. 116 has been bound as frontispiece. Manuscript correction to text on p. 138. Pencil tick and initials "R.M." on front free endpaper verso. Booksellers' pencil note and codes on rear free endpaper: "C+P WG 21.6.40", "E/-/-" and "o/I/-". Pencil number "11377" on rear free endpaper. Ephemera: clipping from bookdealer's catalogue describing this copy pasted onto second front free endpaper (price cut out). Provenance: Twentieth-century bookplate (crest in roundel) with motto ‘Si je puis’ and lettered: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full red morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spine, lettered direct: 'The pigeons'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; dark sea-green endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'.
Makers and roles
Hellēn, author George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), original artist