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The English spy : an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous : with coloured plates and elegant vignettes of scenes sketched from the life

Title: The English spy : an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous : with coloured plates and elegant vignettes of scenes sketched from the life / illustrated with numerous portraits of living characters, designed and etched by Cruikshank.
Author: Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788-1868.
Publication: [London] : Sherwood, Jones and Co., [1824-1826]

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Status	Vol/Date	Format	Access	Call Number	Item Location
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 2	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Westmacott, C. English 1825) 06-398 v. 2	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.	v. 1	Text	Restricted use	Arents BIP (Westmacott, C. English 1825) 06-398 v. 1	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Restricted use	Stuart 11511-11512	Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	By appointment only	Spencer Coll. Eng. 1825-1826 (Westmacott, C.M. English spy)	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Request Appointment Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Permit needed	MEM C956we	Schwarzman Building - Print Collection Room 308
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.		Text	Restricted use	Arents S 0989	Schwarzman Building - Arents Collection Room 328

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Publication Date

[Vol. 1], pt. 1-v. 2, pt. 24.

Description

2 v. : ill. (some col.); 26 cm.

Subject

Note

Title from covers.
Volume title pages (dated 1825-1826) and other prelims. for binding in 2 v. issued with pt. 12 and pt. 24.
Title on volume title pages: The English spy : an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous : comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious / drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle ; the illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank.
Portions in verse.
Traditionally ascribed to C.M. Westmacott, but his authorship "cannot be decided with certainty"--Oxford DNB (WWW).
Imprint varies. Pts. 17-24 and t.p. to v. 2 have imprint: London : Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
Each vol. paged continuously. Vol. 1: xxiii, 417 p., [36] leaves of plates; v. 2: xv, 399 p., [36] leaves of plates.
Illustrations: 71 prints : aquatint, hand-col. ; full-page. 67 designed, etched, aquatinted and colored by Robert Cruikshank; 2 designed by T. Rowlandson, 1 each by G.M. Brighty and T. Wageman. Dated in plate Mar. 1, 1824-Feb. 1, 1826 (no. [28] in v. 1 misdated "Augt. 2, 1284"). -- 74 prints : wood engraving ; full-page (1) or smaller (73). Engraved by G. Bonner, J. Thompson and others, after designs by R. Cruikshank, T. Rowlandson, J. Gilray and J. Thurston.
Many ill. depict pipe-smokers, e.g., v. 1, plate facing p. 381; v. 2, ill., p. 349 and plate facing p. 386. Several references to tobacco in text, e.g., v. 2, p. 251: "Now, snuff and tobacco, the quid, the pinch, and the cigar ... "
Issued in light brown paper covers with wood-engraved ill. (from plate no. [2], v. 1) on front cover. Prospectus and/or publisher's advertisements and notes on the ill. on p. [2-4] of covers; additional publisher's advertisements inserted in some issues.
Also issued bound in 2 v.

Indexed In (note)

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1978 ed.)
Abbey, J.R. Life
Waterloo dir. of English newspapers and periodicals

Numbering (note)

Issues 1-12 lack volume numbering.

Additional Formats (note)

Also available as an e-book through the Posner Memorial Collection, Carnegie-Mellon University Libraries website.

Provenance (note)

Tilden Library 1895
Lenox Library

Binding (note)

Binding, by Riviere & Son, of dark blue morocco, gilt.
In original paper covers. Partly unopened.
Binding, by Riviere and Son, of red straight-grained morocco, gilt. Sides tooled, with 3 fillets. Inside dentelles. Back tooled and lettered; panels mitred and cornered, with center tool.

Call Number

MEM C956we (Westmacott, C.M. English spy)

LCCN

1500433

OCLC

4599249
NYPG754433933-B

Author

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

Title

The English spy : an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous : with coloured plates and elegant vignettes of scenes sketched from the life / illustrated with numerous portraits of living characters, designed and etched by Cruikshank.

Imprint

[London] : Sherwood, Jones and Co., [1824-1826] (London : Thomas Davison)

Current Frequency

Monthly

Indexed In:

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1978 ed.), 504

Abbey, J.R. Life, 325

Waterloo dir. of English newspapers and periodicals, 7596

Numbering

Issues 1-12 lack volume numbering.

Additional Formats

Also available as an e-book through the Posner Memorial Collection, Carnegie-Mellon University Libraries website.

Provenance

Tilden Library 1895 MEM

Lenox Library Stuart

Binding

Copy in Arents S 0989: Binding, by Riviere & Son, of dark blue morocco, gilt.

Copy in Arents BIP: In original paper covers. Partly unopened.

Spencer Coll. copy: Binding, by Riviere and Son, of red straight-grained morocco, gilt. Sides tooled, with 3 fillets. Inside dentelles. Back tooled and lettered; panels mitred and cornered, with center tool.

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