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Creator:
Leigh, Percival, 1813–1889
Title(s):
The fiddle faddle fashion book and beau monde à la française : enriched with numerous highly coloured figures of lady-like gentlemen / edited by the author of The comic Latin grammar ; the costumes and other illustrations by John Leech.
Published/Created:
London : Chapman & Hall, 186, Strand, [1840]
Physical Description:
12 p., 4 leaves of plates : ill. ; 39 cm.
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
NC1479.L44 F53 1840+ Oversize
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
Cover title.
Text printed in double columns.
Date of publication from Abbey.
"The author of The comic Latin grammar"= Percival Leigh.
Printed by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars.
NSTC, 2L9478
Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 308
BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. Original printed wrappers, as issued. Humorous trade advertisements on verso of front wrapper and back wrapper. "Price 3/6" at foot of upper wrapper.
Subject Terms:
Bradbury and Evans -- Printer.
Chapman & Hall -- Publisher.
English wit and humor, Pictorial.
Etching, Colored -- Specimens -- 1840
Men's clothing -- Pictorial works.
Satire, English.
Contributors:
Leech, John, 1817–1864, ill.
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