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Title(s):
The pocket magazine.
Additional Title(s):

Called also: Robins's series

Gentleman's pocket magazine and album

Gentleman's pocket magazine

Album of literature and fine arts

Pocket album and literary scrap book

Pocket magazine (London, England : 1827)
Published/Created:
London : James Robins, 1827-
Physical Description:
14 volumes : illustrations ; 16 cm
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
PR1 .G36
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Periodicals
Notes:
BAC: British Art Center copy 1827 in 12 parts. Original printed wrappers, as issued.
Title from caption.
1827 title differs: Gentleman's pocket magazine of literature & fashion.
1829 title differs: Gentleman's pocket magazine and album of literature and fine arts.
1831 title differs: Pocket album, and literary scrapbook, published by Joseph Robins, Bride-Court, Bridge-Street.
Each year's issues also numbered, V. 1, etc.
Vols. for 1827 and 1829 contain 24 plates by George and Robert Cruikshank, also issued separately as "London characters"; the 12 plates in 1827 have Robins' imprint dated Jan. 1-Dec. 1, 1827; 1829 has portrait of Mr. Keeley by George Cruikshank. 1830 has 24 plates by Robert Cruikshank, assisted by George, also issued separately as "Comicalities".
Work was issued in monthly parts, with wrappers, and subsequently in volume form.
Includes bibliographical references (British Museum 185:738; see A.M. Cohn, George Cruikshank, no. 656).
Union list of serials in libraries of the United States and Canada, vol. 4, page 3376
Cohn, A.M. George Cruikshank, 349
Called also: Robins's series, v. 1-14.
Each year's issues also numbered v. 1-2 (Jan.-June, July-Dec.).
Subject Terms:
English literature -- Periodicals.
English literature.
Etching, Colored -- Specimens -- 1827–1832.
Form/Genre:
Periodicals.
Periodicals.
Contributors:
Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878, printmaker.
Cruikshank, Robert, 1789–1856, printmaker.
Robins, Joseph (Bookseller in Bride Court), publisher.
J. Robins and Co., publisher.
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