Research Catalog

Title

Points of misery; or, Fables for mankind: prose and verse, chiefly original, by Charles Westmacott. Illustrated with twenty designs, by Robert Cruikshank.

Author

Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788-1868.

Publication

London, Sherwood, Jones, 1823.

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Additional Authors

• Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.
• Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834.

Description

vi, 100 p. illus., plates.; 26 cm.

Subjects

• Snuff > Humor
• Tobacco pipes > Poetry

Note

• "[I] contrive ... to empty the contents of my snuff-box over Pompey's chop ...": p. 30; cf. illus., p. 36. "... my tortoise-shell snuff-box broke to pieces in my pocket ...": p. 59. "[The plodders:] exchanging snuffs ...": p. 80. "The miseries of habit ... Dick Strype was a dear friend and lover of the pipe": p. 83-85 (poem by Charles Lamb, originally published as "Dick Strype; or, The force of habit. A tale, by Timothy Bramble" in the Morning post, Jan. 6, 1802; attributed to Lamb by R. A. Potts in the Athenæum, July 23, 1904, p. 112).
• Provenance: J. Barton Townsend (bookplate); Sylvan Lawrence Froelich (bookplate).

Call Number

Arents S 0980

OCLC

• 2179831
• NYPG754275711-B

Author

Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788-1868.

Title

Points of misery; or, Fables for mankind: prose and verse, chiefly original, by Charles Westmacott. Illustrated with twenty designs, by Robert Cruikshank.

Imprint

London, Sherwood, Jones, 1823.

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Added Author

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856. Illustrator

Lamb, Charles, 1775-1834. Dick Strype.

Research Call Number

Arents S 0980