Punch and Judy, with twenty-four illustrations, designed and engraved by George Cruikshank. And other plates. Accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account of its origin, and of puppet-plays in England. Sixth edition

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Punch and Judy, with twenty-four illustrations, designed and engraved by George Cruikshank. And other plates. Accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account of its origin, and of puppet-plays in England. Sixth edition

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

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John P. (John Payne)] [Collier, George (engr.) CruikshankPublished 1881

8vo. pp. 94, ff. [24] (plates). Signatures: [A]-E8 F7. Original cloth. Illustrated with line photoengraved reproductions of original engravings and etchings. Title page and text pages with plain border. Ownership inscription of Kenneth Loveless (30-9-1969). The title states “sixth edition,” while in fact it is the seventh 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 A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, II, p. 1084. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039184729707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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