496 B85 785
Acquired May 2023
Quarto 646 811L
Acquired January 2021
55 M243 733
Acquired September 2020
763 745 H231
Acquired June 2020
A bound album with “Biographical sketch of the life of Mr. Theodore Lane” (pages [33]-59 from Pierce Egan’s 1831 publication: The show folks! (London : Printed for M. Arnold, 1831)), extra-illustrated with portraits of actors, actors in performances, playwrights, and art patrons, followed by cropped impressions, mounted, of the twenty-seven hand-colored plates that accompanied with Pierce Egan’s 1825 The life of an actor and on the final four leaves the nine small, black and white vignettes, also of theatrical scenes also from Egan’s Life of an actor. Lane was an English painter and engraver, who excelled at comic illustration. Also bound in at the front is an autograph letter from Egan dated 15 June 1832 to Mr. Elliott.
Quarto 56 Eg13 832m
Acquired June 2020
63 814 So678
Acquired September 2020
Extra-illustrated with 116 additional prints and autograph material: 82 etchings, caricatures, engraved plates, illustrated title pages, and broadsides by George Cruikshank, of which 24 are hand-colored, mounted and captioned in pencil having been trimmed to the image with loss of imprints
75 C889 S879
Acquired March 2020
Extra-illustrated with the seven plates color-printed à la poupée for the Edward Jeffery edition of 1796
24 17 791 Copy 16
Acquired July 2020
Extra-illustrated with the addition of 54 portraits and views (some hand-colored) ranging in date from the late 18th to the late 19th century, inlaid to size. Also bound in at the end is a publisher’s catalog (45, [3] pages) dated New Burlington Street, Jan. 1, 1856
53 H645 S856
Acquired March 2020
53 P681 Ad238
Acquired November 2019