1828 Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect and Poems

Description

Fine Binding, Illustrated, Leather Binding

First published in 1750, this is the first Cruikshank edition.

Illustrated with a frontispiece and five further plates. Collated, complete. 

Four of these plates are by George Cruikshank, and two by Robert Cruikshank.

The work of English caricaturist and satirical poet John Collier, who was known by the pseudonym of Tim Bobbin. Collier styled himself as the Lancashire Hogarth.

This work takes the form of a comic dialogue between two people, Thomas and Mary, and also includes examples of the author's poetry.

With the armorial bookplates of William Hesketh Lever, 1st Viscount Leverhulme to the front pastedown and the recto and verso of the front free endpaper. He was an English industrialist, philanthropist, and politician. Lever founded the multinational company now known as Unilever alongside his brother, and briefly sat as a Liberal MP for Wirral and later, as Lord Leverhulme, in the House of Lords as a Peer.