The cutter : in five lectures upon the art and practice of cutting friends, acquaintances, and relations.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Evans, Arthur Benoni, 1781-1854, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Invective--Humor.

Invective.

Interpersonal relations--Humor.

Interpersonal relations.

Genre:

Humor.

Penn Provenance:

Young, Peter Stewart, -2021 (bookplate) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

[8], 104 pages, [6] leaves of color plates (5 folded) : color illustrations ; 16 cm

Manufacture:

[London] : Printed by S. Gosnell, Little Queen Street.

Place of Publication:

London : Printed for J. Carpenter, Old Bond Street, 1808.

Notes:

Written by Arthur Benoni Evans. See Halkett.

Illustrations hand-colored.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has manuscript caption ("The Honble. Francis Forbes as he ought to be."), possibly referring to the jurist Francis Forbes (1784-1841), in pencil at head of frontispiece plate; a few manuscript notes in pencil in text.

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2025 from Amanda Hall.

Kislak Center copy has bookplate ("Ex Libris Peter Stewart Young Tillingham") of Peter Stewart Young (d. 2021) of Tillingham, Essex, England, on front free endpaper.

Kislak Center copy has bookseller's description of this copy laid in.

Cited in:

Halkett, S. Dictionary of anonymous and pseudonymous publications in the English language (3rd ed.), I, page 471

Shaw & Shoemaker, 14968

OCLC:

13869692