[Rarebooks] FS: London Singer's Magazine, 16 issues, 1839

[Bob Petrilla]

Cruikshank, George and others.  THE LONDON SINGER'S MAGAZINE: Group of 16
unbound issues in portfolio. Holborn [London]: John Duncombe & Co., [1839].
First Editions. 8pp per issue. Sixteen issues: Numbers 3-13, 15, 18, 23,
25, 30. Unbound as issued, and a few spines roughened. Laid into a plain
portfolio of gray boards and black cloth, ribbon ties. 9" x 5.75".  Very
Good condition.

Features lyrics to comic songs.  For example: The Ghost And The Baron of
Grog-swig;  When Adam Was A Gentleman; Smike's Song To Nicholas Nickleby;
The Monkey Jacket;  My Name Is Mo Sammy Well;  Humphrey Dickins, The Queer
Looking Man;  The Royal Chummy;  The Nobby Waterman; Murphy's Weather Eye;
Cockney Superstitions; Biddy, The Basket Woman;  &c; &c. The front page of
each issue contains a caricature.    $225.00

Postpaid in US.  Usual trade terms.



    *  R & A  Petrilla*



*          Antiquarian Booksellers                     PO Box 306
   Roosevelt, NJ 08555*


*           bob at petrillabooks.com <%28609%29%20426-4999>**        Member:
 ABAA, ILAB, IOBA*


*​ *