The adventures of Mr. Obadiah Oldbuck : wherein are duly set forth the crosses, chagrins, calamities, checks, chills, changes, and circumgirations, by which his courtship was attended : showing also the issue of his suit and his espousal to his lady-love.

Creator:

Töpffer, Rodolphe, 1799-1846

Published/Created:

New York :
Wilson & Company, Nassau-Street,
[1844]

Physical Description:

80 p. : ill. ; 15 x 22 cm.

Notes:

Originally published as Histoire de Monsieur Vieux Bois, Geneve, 1837; usually cited as: Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois.
Colophon: Egbert, Hovey & King, printers.
Only in the 1844 New York city directory is the firm of Wilson & Company listed at a Nassau Street address.

Variant Titles:

Amours de Mr. Vieux Bois. English

Topics:

Caricatures and cartoons
Wit and humor, Pictorial

Language:

English

Genre:

comics (graphic documents) (AAT)
illustrations (AAT)
woodcuts (AAT)

Format:

Mixed Material

Rights:

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Access Restrictions:

Public

Related Exhibit or Resource:

Comic Inventions: The Pre-History of the Graphic Narrative in the Nineteenth Century

Call Number:

2010 247

Orbis Record:

9300346

Yale Collection:

Beinecke Library

Digital Collection:

General Collection, BRBL, Yale University

oid pointer:

15242556

Extent of digitization:

Complete work digitized.

OID:

10171475

PID:

digcoll:4049166