Content: "In three volumes."
Content: Binding: Publisher's brown cloth, blind-stamped and gilt; yellow endpapers. For binding variants, cf. Podeschi. Without publisher's name on spine, "a mark of the earliestissue"--Carr.
Content: Illustrations: 24 prints : etching ; full-page. Signed: George Cruikshank. Final plate in v. 3 shows the "fireside" scene, "usually taken as a feature of early issue"--Podeschi.
Content: List of plates: v. 1, p. [5] (1st group) (not present in earliest issues; cf. Eckel).
Content: Provenance (Arents copy): J.F. Starkey (autograph in v. 1;armorial bookplate in v. 1-3).
Content: Publisher's advertisements: v. 1, p. [2] (1st group), [333-336]; v. 2, p. [2] (1st group); v. 3: p. [1-2] (1st group).
Content: Serialized in Bentley's miscellany, Feb. 1837-Mar. 1839.
Content: Vol. 1: [5], 331, [5] p., [9] leaves of plates; v. 2: [4],307 p., [7] leaves of plates; v. 3: [4], 315 p., [8] leaves of plates.
Content: "London: Printed by Samuel Bentley, Dorset Street, Fleet Street"--T.p. verso, v. 1; colophon, v. 1 and 3. "Whiting,Beaufort House"--T.p. verso, v. 2-3; "Whiting, Beaufort House, Strand"--Colophon, v. 2.
Ownership: J. F. Starkey
Statement Of Responsibility: by "Boz."

Physical Description

Etchings
Extent: 1 print : etching.

Identifiers

NYPL Catalog ID (bnumber): b14866649
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): 1e849960-c604-012f-5108-58d385a7bc34

Rights

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Type Of Resource

Still Image

Date Issued

1838

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Oliver asking for more." The New York Public Library Digital Collections. 1838. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1e849960-c604-012f-5108-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. (1838). Oliver asking for more. Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1e849960-c604-012f-5108-58d385a7bc34

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The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection, The New York Public Library. "Oliver asking for more." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed December 15, 2025. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/1e849960-c604-012f-5108-58d385a7bc34

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