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Hogarth on high life : the Marriage à la mode series: PB 457-2003

Object information

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Titles

Hogarth on high life : the Marriage à la mode series

Maker(s)

Author: Lichtenberg, Georg Christoph
Editor: Wensinger, Arthur S.
Editor: Coley, W. B.
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Compositor: Connecticut Printers, Inc.
Printer: Meriden Gravure Company
Binder (person): Russell-Rutter Company

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Description

From George Christoph Lichtenberg's commentaries ; translated and edited by Arthur S. Wensinger with W.B. Coley.

Translation of pt. 4 of the author's Ausführliche Erklärung der Hogarthischen Kupferstiche

Appendices (p. 115-147): I. Lichtenberg on the Hogarth commentaries: extracts from certain of his letters.--II. Jean-André Rouquet's Explanation of the prints entitled Marriage à la mode.--III. Marriage a-la-mode: an humorous tale, in six cantos in hudibrastic verse.

Lii, 150 p., [6] fold. plates : ill ; 39 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Middletown

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (2003-05) by Dreyfus, John

Dating

Production date: AD 1970

Note

"... composed in Baskerville and Caslon types by Connecticut Printers, Inc., and printed by the Meriden Gravure Company. The binding was by Russell-Rutter Co., Inc. ... Designed by Raymond M. Grimaila."--Colophon. Bound in black cloth, stamped in silver on spine with title. Issued in slipcase.

Components of the work

Support composed of paper

Materials used in production

Printing ink

Techniques used in production

Printing

Identification numbers

Accession number: PB 457-2003
Primary reference Number: 98479
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 21 August 2012 Last processed: Tuesday 13 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Manuscripts and Printed Books

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