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    • Author/Creator:Leighton, John, 1822-1912.
    • Title:Comic art-manufactures : the aim of this collection is to decorate objects of every day life, and to associate poetical invention with every thing, to decorate each article with appropriate details relating to its use, and to obtain these details as directly as possible from nature ... / collected by Luke Limner ...
    • Published/Created:London, D. Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, [1848].
    • Physical Description:[1], 8 leaves : all ill. ; 15 x 23 cm.
    • Yale Holdings

      • Location:BRITISH ART CENTER, Rare Bks & Mss (Non-Circulating)
      • Call Number: NK928 L44 1848
      • Status:Not Checked Out
      • Provenance:Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Fund
       
    • Local Notes:Presentation copy from the author to William Stirling-Maxwell; inscription is dated November, 1848.
      Author's ms. note says this is proof copy.
      Bound in publisher's boards with original printed label on cover. Label reads: Art manufacture.
    • Notes:from t.p.: Printed at the lithographic press of Leighton & Taylor, 19 Lamb's Conduit Street
      Satire of Henry Cole's art manufactures.
    • Variant and related titles:Art manufacture.
    • Format:Book
    • Subjects:Cole, Henry, Sir, 1808-1882--Cartoons, satire, etc.
      Decorative arts, Victorian--Anecdotes.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Lithography--Specimens--[1848].
      Chron.--1848.
      Stirling Maxwell, William, Sir, 1818-1878--Pres. insc. from John Leighton, 1848.
      Leighton, John, 1822-1912--Pres. insc. to Sir William Stirling-Maxwell, 1848.
      Bogue, D.--Publisher.
      Leighton & Taylor--Printer.