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Title
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Points of Misery; or Fables for Mankind: Prose and Verse, Chiefly Original
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Description
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This is a hardbound book (hard cover)
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By Charles Westmacott
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Creator
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Westmacott, C.M.
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Contributor
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Cruikshank, Robert
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Date
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2016-01-25T20:04:21Z
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2010-10
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1823
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Date Available
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2016-01-25T20:04:21Z
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Date Issued
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1823
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Abstract
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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.
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Identifier
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7220 (Access ID)
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Language
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eng
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Publisher
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Sherwood, Jones, and Company
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London
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Subject
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PR5779.W2 P6 1823
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Tangential
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Title Page Scanned
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Type
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Book, Whole