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• Author/Creator:Busby, Thomas Lord, ill.
  
• Title:Costume of the lower orders of London : painted and engraved from nature / by T.L. Busby.
  
• Published/Created:London : Published for T.L. Busby by Messrs. Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy, Paternoster-Row; at the Artist's Depository, 21, Charlotte-Street, Firtzroy-Square, (one door above Goodge-Street,) ... [1820]
  
• Physical Description:iv, [24] p., [24] leaves : ill. ; 30 cm.
  

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  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: DA688 .B85 1820+ Copy 1 Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

  • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
    Request for use in the YCBA Study Room
    
    
  • Call Number: DA688 .B85 1820+ Copy 2 Oversize
    
  • Status:Not Checked Out
    
  • Library Has: pt. 1-6
    
  • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
    

   
• Local Notes:BAC: British Art Center has two copies. Copy 1 is the Abbey copy. First issue: spelling of Mattman on plate 7 is not corrected. Signature not added to plate 8 "The fortune teller". Has bound with it:: Busby, T. L. Fishing costume and local scenery of Hartlepool in the county of Durham. London, 1819. Copy 2 is in the original 6 parts, in publisher's printed wrappers. Later issue: spelling of Mattman on plate 7 is corrected to Mat Man and signature added to plate 8.
  
• Notes:Engravings by and after Thomas Lord Busby.
  Printed by W. Clowes, Northumberland-court, Strand.
  Plates dated from 1 Nov. 1819 to 15 Aug. 1820.
  Added engraved title page in French and English.
  Selected exhibitions: “Pleasures and Pastimes" (Yale Center for British Art, February 21 - April 29, 1990).
  
• Format:Book
• References:Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 423
  Kunstbibliothek (Berlin, Germany). Katalog der Lipperheideschen Kostümbibliothek (2. Aufl.), 1025
  Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 123
  Colas, R. Bibliographie générale du costume et de la mode, 491
  Fairman, Elisabeth R. Pleasures and pastimes, 139, 158
  
• Subjects:Cries--England--London.
  Clothing and dress--England--London--19th century.
  London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century--Pictorial works.
  
• Subjects (Local Yale):Chron.--1820.
  Etching, Colored--Specimens--1820.
  Clowes, W.--Printer.
  Baldwin, Cradock, and Joy--Publisher.
  
• Genre/Form:Cries--England--London--1820.
  
• Also listed under: Pleasures and Pastimes (Yale Center for British Art, February 21, 1990-April 29, 1990)