The humourist
Subtitle: a collection of entertaining tales, anecdotes, repartees, witty sayings, epigrams, bon mots, jeu d'esprits, &c., carefully selected ...
Contributors: Bishop, Cortlandt F. (Cortlandt Field), 1870-1935, former owner; Sangorski & Sutcliffe; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Printed and published by J. Robins and Co.
Published: 1819
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 40
Subjects: Wit and humor; British Etching
Notes: Originally issued in parts.

Vol. 1-3 dated 1819; Vol. 4 dated 1820.

Illustrations: 40 full-page etchings, colored by hand, including added t.p. to each volume, by George Cruikshank; dated 1819-1821.

First ed., first issue (see Cohn 419; Widener, p. 55; Douglas (1911) 311).

Publisher's list on verso of list of plates in each volume.

Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank: a catalogue raisonné (1925), 419

Reid, 790-829, 4709

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book copy: From the libraries of George [F.?] Sargeant, with his autograph on flyleaf of Vol. 1; William Johns, Esq., with his autograph on title page of Vol. 4; and Cortlandt F. Bishop, with his bookplate on silk enclosure.

Issued in full paper over boards; upper cover printed with title within engraved border; lower cover printed with "Address" from the publisher on Vol.1-3 and publisher's advertisement on Vol. 4; edges untrimmed.

Rare Book copy: All volumes in original red printed paper over boards, contained in a silk enclosure within gold-tooled red leather pull-off case signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.