Shelfmark
Ln.1.21
Author
Title
Tom Raw, the Griffin : a burlesque poem, in twelve cantos: illustrated by twenty-five engravings, descriptive of the adventures of a cadet in the East India Company's service, from the period of his quitting England to his obtaining a staff situation in India / by a civilian and an officer on the Bengal establishment.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London : Printed for R. Ackermann, 96 Strand, MDCCCXXVIII [1828].
Physical description
[2], viii, [2], 326, 8, [2]p, [26] leaves of plates : ill. (engravings) ; 24cm.
Note
Includes final five advertisement leaves.
Note
Plates hand coloured.
Note
Ms. bookseller's note and codes in pencil.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton College School Library recording donation: "Major General Villiers Hatton" (typed).
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Villiers Hatton.
Provenance
Ms. inscriptions: "E. [?]J. Beament, 1853".
Provenance
Bookplate of J. B. Nash's New Circulating Library with ms. annotation by E. Beament.
Binding
19th century brown calf half-binding with brown and blue marbled paper boards and endpapers, gilt triple fillets, and gilt lettering and decoration stamped on spine.
Subject
East India Company Army.
Subject
India History British occupation, 1765-1947.
Added entry--name
Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
Added entry--name
Ackermann, Rudolph, 1764 - 1834 bookseller.
Added entry--name
Beament, E. former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
England London.
Identifier
B25312