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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. Third edition
By John Payne Collier, George (engr.) Cruikshank
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp. 141, [23] (colored illustrations). Original green cloth, rebacked, with pictorial wrappers and spine label laid down. Includes penciled inscription: “Punch and Judy given to the dear children at Glangwan [?] by their affectionate Grandmama. Lacks frontispiece and pp. 97-98, 101-102, 105-106, and 139-142.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">The first reissue of the sheets of the 1828 second edition (see Bib# 4117090/Fr# 908 in this collection) 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. 1083.</span><br /></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039184659707861" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>
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