The book of fun
Contributors: Hine, Henry George, 1811-1895; Walmsley, John, fl. 1839-1878; Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878; Williams, Thomas, b. ca. 1800; Slader, Samuel M.; Branston and Wright,; Gregory, Collins & Reynolds
Publisher: Gilbert, Paternoster Row
Published: 1843
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: English language -- Juvenile humor.; Elocution -- Juvenile humor.; Arithmetic -- Juvenile humor.; Rome -- History -- Juvenile humor.
Genres: Juvenile humor.
Notes: Date based on printer's address on ill. t.p.  Cf. Wakeman, Geoffrey & Gavin D. R. Bridson.  A guide to nineteenth century colour printers, 1975.

Col. wood-engraved ill. t.p. with imprint: "Printed in colors by Gregory & Collins. 16 James's Street Clerkenwell".

Most wood-engraved illustrations are unsigned.  Several are signed: "H" and "W" and a few are signed: "Hine" and "Walmsley".  One is signed" "GC" [i.e. George Cruikshank] and "Thos. Williams" and another is signed: "GC" and "Slader".  One is signed "B+W Sc." [i.e. Branston and Wright].

Table of contents on p. [216] entitled: "Contents of Vol. 1. of The Book of Fun.".

Cohn, A. M. George Cruikshank, 83.

MASS copy: Bound in red morocco-grain cloth blocked in gold and blind in the same design as McLean D 0107.  Upper cover and spine blocked in gold with illustrations similar to those within the text.   With inscription: "Prize obtained by Frederick Shoberl  Christmas 1847.  Soho Commercial School.".
Table of contents: value: The illustrated English grammar; or, Lindley Murray simplified; value: The comic speaker; or, Rhetoric and elocution for the million; value: Illustrated arithmetic; or, Cyphering made comical; value: The comic history of Rome, and the Rumuns [sic].