Punch and Judy, with illustrations designed and engraved by George Cruikshank. Accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account of its origin, and of puppet-plays in England

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Punch and Judy, with illustrations designed and engraved by George Cruikshank. Accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account of its origin, and of puppet-plays in England

John P. (John Payne)] [Collier, George (engr.) Cruikshank

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Punch and Judy, with illustrations designed and engraved by Ge...John P. (John Payne)] [Collier, George (engr.) Cruikshank

John P. (John Payne)] [Collier, George (engr.) CruikshankPublished 1828

8vo. pp 111, [1] (interspersed with ff. [24] (plates, some colored)). There are two copies in this collection. The first is in half morocco, with bookplates of Thomas Gaisford and Sir Charles Tennant. This volume is lacking "Criticisms" and first half title. The second copy, retained by the Freemans, is in morocco, with two states of the plates, plain facing colored. Title vignette repeats illustration on p. 28. First edition of a published Punch and Judy script, illustrated by the well-known caricaturist George Cruikshank. The writer, John Payne Collier, claimed the script to be based on the version performed by the "professor" Giovanni Piccini in the early 19th century, and Piccini himself had begun performing in the streets of London in the late 18th century. Collier's later career as a literary forger has cast some doubt on the authenticity of the script, which is rather literary in style and may well have been tidied up from the rough-and-tumble street-theatre original. See W.A. Clark, Cruikshank and Dickens. San Francisco, 1921, 1, pp. 11-12; A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, A9. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039184599707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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