Research Catalog

Title

Cruikshank at home : a new family album of endless entertainment ; with numerous illustrations engraved on wood.

Author

Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856

Publication

London : Henry G. Bohn, 1845.

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Details

Additional Authors

Seymour, Robert, 1798-1836

Description

4 v. in 2 : ill., plates; 18 cm.

Alternative Title

• Odd volume.
• Odd volume

Subject

• English wit and humor

Note

• 1st, 2nd series.
• A collection of short stories selected by Robert Cruikshank for illustration.
• "The odd volume," by Robert Cruikshank and Robert Seymour, forms v.4 of this series.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Vol. 1 Wee Watty -- Courting by proxy -- The inquisitive gentleman -- Cultivations -- A traveller in spite of himself -- The barber's wedding day -- Sighmon Dumps -- The crooked stick -- The German gibbet -- The red man -- The splendid annual -- The fifeshire apothecary -- The gridiron -- Hereditary honours -- Story of Cassem -- Vol. 2 Mary Ogilvie -- Roast pig -- Hour of fortune -- First love -- The short gentleman's apology -- The unlucky present -- Russians v. Americans -- General invitations -- The rapids -- A voice from the deep -- A retrospective review -- The resolute lover -- My grandmother's keys -- The cut direct -- Vol. 3 Wandering Willie's tale -- Guzzle: a fragment -- The conquering hero and his prostrate foe -- Reading the will -- The midnight review -- Richard Dewlap, Esq. -- The one-string'd instrument -- The cobbler of Munich -- A second major longbow -- Memoirs of a haunch of mutton -- Lady Betty's pocket book -- The delights of foreign travel -- The red woman -- The duel -- Odd volume Legend of the large mouth -- Strawberries and cream -- The rose in January -- The march of mind -- The old gentleman's teetotum -- A water party -- The angler and the fowler -- The elopement -- Subjects of conversation -- The inconveniencies of being hanged -- The new "Beauty and the Beast" -- Trinity College, Cambridge -- Neck or nothing -- The mysterious visitor -- The cloaks -- A comical adventure -- How to make a paper -- The night-mare -- A gall-ing system.

LCCN

^^^14021536^

OCLC

2806155

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library