[Proof impressions of the etched illustrations for "1851: or, The adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition"]
By: by George Cruikshank.
Contributors: Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887.
Publisher: David Bogue
Published: 1851
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 11
Notes: Consists of 11 copper etched plates printed in brown on heavy paper.

All plates, except one, are signed "Geo Cruikshank", "George Cruikshank", "Taken on the spot by George Cruikshank", "Sketched & Etched by Geore. Cruikshank" or "Designed & Etched by George Cruikshank".  Some are also signed "Pubd. by D. Bogue 86 Fleet St.", "Published by David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, London, June 28th, 1851.", "Pubd. by D Bogue 86 Fleet St July 1st 1851" or "Pub. by D. Bogue 86 Fleet St. London".

Plate [3] includes text incorporated within the image: ""1851" by Henry Mayhew and George Cruikshank".

All etchings, except plate [6], are the same as those used in an [1851] edition of the title published by George Newbold.  See McLean O 0432.

MASS copy: Plates are loosely inserted in a dark blue half morocco-grain cloth and paper-covered board portfolio with paper flaps on the inside lower cover and a cloth tie at the fore-edge.
Table of contents: value: All the world going to see the Great Exhibition of 1851; value: Looking for lodgings; value: London, in 1851; value: Manchester in 1851; value: The opera boxes during the time of the Great Exhibition; value: The opening of the Great Industrial Exhibition of all nations, by her most gracious majesty Queen Victoria and his Royal Highness Prince Albert, on the 1st of May, 1851; value: The first shilling-day - going in; value: The first shilling-day - coming out; value: Some of the drolleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851; value: Odds & ends, in, out, & about, The Great Exhibition of 1851; value: The dispersion of the works of all nations from the Great Exhibition of 1851.