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Title
TOM RAW, THE GRIFFIN:
A Burlesque Poem,
in Twelve Cantos:
Illustrated by
Twenty-five Engravings,
Descriptive of
The Adventures of a Cadet
in the East India Company's Service,
from the Period of His Quitting England to His Obtaining a Staff Situation in India.
By a Civilian and an Officer
of the Bengal Establishment
[FIRST Edition – Publisher’s Original Binding]
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Author
By a Civilian and an Officer
of the Bengal Establishment
[Sir Charles D'Oyly]
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Year of Publication
1828
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Publisher
London: Printed by R. Ackerman, 96 Strand.
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Description:
London: Printed by R. Ackerman, 96 Strand, 1828, FIRST Edition.
Publisher’s original binding with original paper label to the spine, in very good original condition, with 25 hand coloured plates (including the frontispiece listed on page 199) with very little foxing, some offsetting from the plates to the opposing pages. Plate 199 bound in as the frontispeace.
Provenance: signature of Desmond Little to the title page, 'Little' in pencil to the end paper; other signature in ink crossed our to the title.
Approximately 10 and a half inches tall.
Condition Report
Externally
- Spine – good condition – original paper label to board spine, rubbed and worn to the top of the spine.
- Joints – good condition – some rubbing.
- Corners – good condition – bumped and worn.
- Boards – good condition – marked and worn original bare boards.
- Page edges – good condition – all edges darkened and untrimmed.
- See above and photos.
Internally
- Hinges – good condition – solid.
- Paste downs – good condition – tanned, clean.
- End papers – good condition – tanned, signature to the front.
- Title – good condition – tanned with some minor foxing.
- Pages – good condition – gentle tanning throughout, illustrated, offsetting from the illustration.
- Binding – good condition.
- See photos.
Publisher: see above.
Publication Date: 1828.
Binding: Hardback
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