Research Catalog

Title

The real devil's walk / Not by Professor Porson. Designs by R. Cruikshank. With notes, and extracts from the Devil's diary.

Publication

London : Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 1830.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Effingham, 1783-1868.
• Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856.
• Bonner, G. W. (George Wilmot), 1796-1836.
• Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800-
• Byfield, John, 1788-1841.
• Maurice & Co. prt

Description

34, [2], 18 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill.; 16 cm.

Summary

An indictment, in verse, of various London figures and institutions deemed by the author to be corrupt.

Subject

• Great Britain > Moral conditions > Poetry

Note

• Printer's imprint: "London: Printed by Maurice and Co., Fenchurch Street."
• Publisher's advertisements: 18 p. at back.
• With tissue guard sheets.
• Illustrations: Frontispiece engraving, "And Colburn be shunn'd, or the Devil's incog. / Had been but little avail, / For he very well knew the agreeable dog / Would persuade him to publish his tail"; signed "T. Williams" just below illustration; depicting the devil dressed as a gentleman, taking off his hat to better view the building before him, labeled "Blue Stocking Hall," which is made out of giant books; smokestacks from the top of the building emit clouds, variously labeled "Puff," "Advertisement," and "Cloudesley," the title of the novel by William Godwin published by Colburn in 1830. -- Engraved vignette signed "Bonner," p. [9], depicting the devil tossing a coin, surrounded by demons and hell flames. -- Plate engraving, "No wonder my darling Duke and I, / are so often mistaken for brothers"; signed "T. Williams"; depicting the Devil in the tailor's shop, admiring himself in the mirror; the tailor looks on holding his shears and a pair of stays. -- Engraved vignette signed Bonner, p. 13, depicting the Devil tipping his hat and bowing to a Catholic priest. -- Plate engraving, "But he met Lord this, and the Duke of that, / And each politely took off his hat, he saw they were 'quite the go' here"; signed Bonner; depicting the Devil and two noblemen with devil horns bowing to each other in front of a tavern. -- Engraved vignette, p. 16, depicting the fire-eater Chabert seated, consumed by flames. -- Engraved vignette, "What a bore!", p. 18, depicting a lady struggling with a boa constrictor, which has coiled around her body. -- Plate engraving, "'For wailing and gnashing of teeth,' thought he, / 'For fiend-like passions, and misery, / The Hell I keep mustknock under'", depicting the Devil watching gamblers at a table; the apparent loser, distraught, is in the foreground. -- Plate engraving, "They passed, for the Bard knew nothing of 'Satan,' / Though Satan knew Mont[gomer]y"; depicting the devil passing a lady on the street, and walking toward a haloed caricature of Shelley. -- Plate engraving, "He enter'd a house in the midst of a crowd ..."; signed I. Byfield; depicting the Devil sitting in on a church service, flirting with a young woman. -- Engraved vignette, p. 27, depicting the devil chatting with two Lords. -- Plate engraving, "And he went to the Fleet, those victims to see, / Whom Equity judgments had lugg'd in"; depicting the Devil inside a house, placing a coin in the hand of a man holding a deed; a woman and child sleep in a bed in the background. -- Engraved vignette, p. 34, depicting the Devil straddling the globe; in his left hand he holds an hourglass, in his right hand a pitchfork, with which he stabs the area on the globe marked "England."

Access (note)

• Restricted access;bPforzheimer Collection;

Call Number

Pforz (Real devil's walk)

OCLC

2736868

Title

The real devil's walk / Not by Professor Porson. Designs by R. Cruikshank. With notes, and extracts from the Devil's diary.

Imprint

London : Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 1830.

Restricted Access

Restricted access;bPforzheimer Collection; Permit must be requested at the division indicated.

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy 1: Lacking publisher's advertisements and tissue guard sheets. -- Bound in quarter brown morocco, with antique spot boards.

Pforzheimer copy 2: Bound in original red printed paper covers, rebacked with red cloth; cream endpapers added. --

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Added Author

Wilson, Effingham, 1783-1868. Publisher

Maurice & Co. Printer

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856. Illustrator

Bonner, G. W. (George Wilmot), 1796-1836. Engraver

Williams, Thomas, approximately 1800- Engraver

Byfield, John, 1788-1841.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Real devil's walk)