Anecdotes of, and letters from, John Horne Tooke
By: collected by George Cumberland.
Contributors: Tooke, John Horne, 1736-1812.; Cumberland, George, 1754-1848.; Cumberland, George, 1754-1848.
Series: Blake -- no. 992
Published: 1823
Language: eng
Format: Manuscript
Number of pages: 84
Subjects: Tooke, John Horne, -- 1736-1812.; Tooke, John Horne, -- 1736-1812 -- Correspondence
Genres: Correspondence
Other titles: Placed under Mr. Banks's fine bust of John Horne Tooke, Esq.--on his birthday in MDCCCX.
Notes: Holograph.

Nineteen leaves at front and twelve leaves at end are blank.

Numbering is erratic; blank leaves interspersed throughout.

Includes originals of Tooke's letters from 1798-1812 ([39] leaves).

Paper has many different watermarks, with various dates.

Plates include original sketches by George Cumberland of J.H. Tooke and Tooke's house, circa 1811, pasted on blank leaves. Third plate is a design by Cumberland for a frontispiece to Tooke's Diversions of Purley (1798) which Tooke did not use.

Bound in is a copy of Cumberland's published work, "Placed under Mr. Banks's fine bust of John Horne Tooke, Esq.--on his birthday in MDCCCX". The copy is marked: "Of these I printed only 25 copies." and on the verso of the second leaf Cumberland has added in manuscript a variant of the last four lines.

Cumberland's etching of his sketch of Tooke is laid in loosely.

Bound in 3/4 contemporary brown leather, blind-tooled and gilt, without lettering, over brown marbled boards with matching marbled end-papers.

Bentley, G.E., Bibliography of George Cumberland, p. 85-92.

Gift to Victoria University Library. Bentley, G.E., Jr. 2005/10/01.

Victoria University Library copy: The loose etching of Cumberland's sketch of Tooke has been removed from the manuscript and is