The man in the moon

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Description
"A monthly review and bulletin of new measures, new men, new books, new plays, new jokes, and new nonsense; being an act for the amalgamation of the broad gauge of fancy with the narrow gauge of fact into the grand general amusement junction"--Page [4] of covers, no. 1-9.
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1847-01 - 1849-06
Place: London
Publisher: Clark
Library locations
General Research Division
Shelf locator: NDF (Man in the moon)
Topics
English wit and humor
English literature
Genres
Periodicals
Notes
Ownership: 422814-422818
Content: "Edited by Albert Smith and Angus B. Reach; with cuts by Phiz, Kenny Meadows, Hine, Nicholson, Thomas, A. Mayhew, Smythe, Cham and others."
Content: "The pictorial department under the direction of Robert B.Brough"--Covers, no. 23-25.
Content: Arents copy: No. 1 lacks front cover; supplied from no. 13(Jan. 1848), with number and year altered to "1" and "1847."
Content: Arents copy: Provenance: Ja. Lomax, Stockport Advertiser; McKnight Crawford, Esq., Garvald House; Robert Cole Jr. (inscriptions on covers).
Content: Copy in NDF: Bound without covers. Poor condition. Many plates loose; many have separated along fold lines.
Content: Copy in NDF: Draper Fund.
Content: Each v. paged continuously.
Content: Editors: Jan. 1847-Feb. 1848, Albert Smith and Angus B. Reach; Mar. 1848-June 1849, Angus B. Reach; July-Aug. 1849,Robert B. Brough and William Brough.
Content: Issued in illustrated beige paper covers. Publisher's and general advertisements on covers and/or inserted in most issues.
Content: Latest issue consulted: Vol. 5, no. 30 (June 1849).
Content: The ill. are wood engravings. Each issue through no. 20 contains 1 large wood engraving on folded sheet (ca. 27 x 43 cm.).
Content: Title from cover.
Content: Vol. 1-5 also issued in publisher's bindings, in 5 v.
Content: Volume title pages and volume contents leaves issued with no. 6, 14, 18, 24 and 30.
Ownership: ARNBIP255
Physical Description
Extent: V. : ill. ; 18 cm.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b15446898
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 2ec84fc0-c605-012f-2954-58d385a7bc34
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