The glass and the new Crystal Palace
By: by George Cruikshank ; with cuts
Contributors: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator, signer; Cruikshank, Percy, active 1840-1860 engraver; Cassell, John, 1817-1865, publisher, printer
Edition: First edition
Publisher: Published by J. Cassell, Ludgate Hill
Published: 1853
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 32
Subjects: Temperance; Alcoholism
Description: One of Cruikshank's teetotalling pamphlets inveighing against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays and the attendant sale of alcoholic beverages. Condemns alcohol as the cause of robberty, murder, madness, etc.
Notes: "J. Cassell, Printer, Ludgate Hill" -- Colophon.

Advertisements on back wrapper for other of Cruikshank's publications on abstinence.

cat Victorian 20110428 vmb

Presentation copy. Inscribed by author on front wrapper:  "With the compliments of Geo Cruikshank."

In original paper wrappers. Housed in custom brown cloth clamshell box. Some paragraphs checkmarked and lined by former owner. Color illustrated bookplate on inside of box: "Ex libris Marshal R. Anspach." Black label on box spine lettered in gilt.