Points of Misery; or Fables for Mankind: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original

Title

en_US Points of Misery; or Fables for Mankind: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original

Description

en_US This is a hardbound book (hard cover)

en_US By Charles Westmacott

Creator

en_US Westmacott, C.M. See all items with this value

Contributor

en_US Cruikshank, Robert

Date

2016-01-25T20:04:21Z

en_US 2010-10

en_US 1823

Date Available

2016-01-25T20:04:21Z

Date Issued

en_US 1823

Abstract

en_US I keep this book in this collection because of the subtitle and the delightful Cruikshank illustrations. The twenty of them are delightful! There is one full-page illustration on one side of different paper-stock for each of the nine chapters plus a sort of frontispiece (vii) opposite a short statement on Man and His Miseries. This picture presents the contrast of two mature men, one plagued by demons and grimacing and the other smiling and raising a glass in a toast to the reader. The invitation in this text is, I take it, to find pleasure even in miseries. Westmacott and Cruikshank do that for their readers as they tour through the major miseries of humankind: miseries of authorcraft, mind, travelling by coach, a London lodging-house, love, london, matrimony, borrowing, and living too fast. The texts seem a potpourri of stories, poems, and comments -- all delightfully satirical. Most points also include a smaller tailpiece at the end of their text. My prize among the illustrations goes to the full-page illustration (87) for the Miseries of Borrowing. Everything is going on in that pawn shop at once! The title-page just became separated in my hand. Formerly in the Brooklyn Public Library.

Identifier

en_US 7220 (Access ID)

uri

http://hdl.handle.net/10504/82494

Language

en_US eng

Publisher

en_US Sherwood, Jones, and Company

en_US London

Subject

en_US PR5779.W2 P6 1823 See all items with this value

en_US Tangential See all items with this value

en_US Title Page Scanned See all items with this value

Type

en_US Book, Whole