Tim Bobbin's Lancashire dialect and poems
By: plates by G. Cruikshank
Contributors: Brown, C. M., former owner; Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Cruikshank, Isaac Robert, 1789-1836
Publisher: Orlando Hodgson, 10, Cloth Fair, West Smithfield
Published: 1833
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 184
Subjects: English language; Dialects; Wit and humor; Anglais (Langue); Dialectes; Humour; Humor
Other titles: Lancashire dialect and poems.
Notes: Etchings signed by George Cruikshank (4) and Robert Cruikshank (2).

Signature on flyleaf: C.M. Brown.

Accompanying ephemera: Pages of text wrapped in a sheet of paper and inserted inside the back cover, with the following inscription on the front: Fragment of a Tim Bobbin work with a slack engraving. About the year 1803 Mr William Cowdroy (Junior) began business as printer & publisher at 27 Bury Street Salford. In 1810 the firm became Cowdroy & Slack, engraving and periodical publishing were added to the business & the office removed to the premises of the new partner in the adjacent Gravel Lane. The earliest ventures of the new firm were the quaintly humorous writings of Tom Bobbin & Tom the Second. These were profusely embellished by Mr Slack whose pencil & Graver were as prolific as the were popular" Procter's Memorials of by M/c (p.7). Apply at Deansgate counter.