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The artist and the author : a statement of facts : proving that the distinguished author, Mr. W. Harrison Ainsworth, is "labouring under a singular delusion" with respect to the origin of "The miser's daughter," "The tower of London," etc.

Title: The artist and the author : a statement of facts : proving that the distinguished author, Mr. W. Harrison Ainsworth, is "labouring under a singular delusion" with respect to the origin of "The miser's daughter," "The tower of London," etc. / by the artist, George Cruikshank.
Author: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Publication: London : Bell and Daldy, [1872]

Details

Additional Authors

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882.

Description

16 p.; 21 cm.

Subject

Note

Caption title.
In the caption, statement of responsibility follows the words "a statement of facts."
In this pamphlet, Cruikshank claims to have been the originator of Dickens's Oliver Twist as well as of Ainsworth's The miser's daughter and The tower of London. Includes correspondence on the matter by Cruikshank and Ainsworth, published in the Times, 1872.

Indexed In (note)

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens

Call Number

Arents BIP/AL (Cruikshank, G. Artist and the author) 99-153

OCLC

144837486

Author

Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.

Title

The artist and the author : a statement of facts : proving that the distinguished author, Mr. W. Harrison Ainsworth, is "labouring under a singular delusion" with respect to the origin of "The miser's daughter," "The tower of London," etc. / by the artist, George Cruikshank.

Imprint

London : Bell and Daldy, [1872]

Indexed In:

Podeschi, J.B. Dickens, H116

Local Note

Author's presentation copy, inscribed to Crawford J. Pocock, Esq.

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Local Subject

Pocock, Crawford J. Provenance.

Added Author

Ainsworth, William Harrison, 1805-1882.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP/AL (Cruikshank, G. Artist and the author) 99-153

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