Consuming Passions: Leisure and Pleasure in Victorian Britain (76 page)

1863: Return on Number of Visitors to British Museum Collections from the Date of its Establishment to March 1863, vol. 29

PRIMARY SOURCES

Anon.,
An Account of the British Institution for Promoting the Fine Arts in the United Kingdom
(London, 1805)

——, ‘Advertisements’,
Quarterly Review
, 97 ( June and September 1855), 222

——,
The Birmingham Saturday Half Holiday-Guide, with a Map
(Birmingham, William Walker, [1871])

——,
The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club for the Year[s] 1808, 1809, 1810
(3 vols., Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable, 1907-10)

——,
Cassell’s Handy Guide to the Sea-Side. Illustrated. A Description of all the principal English sea watering-places, with their relative advantages to the tourist and resident
(2nd ed., London, Cassell, Petter, and Galpin, [1865])

——,
The Christmas Book. Christmas in the Olden Time: Its Customs and their Origin
(London, James Pattie, 1859)

——,
The Christmas Tree: A Book of Instruction and Amusement for all Young People
(London, James Blackwood, editions in 1856, 1858, 1859, 1860)

——,
The Christmas Tree, A Present from Germany
(London, Darton & Clark, 1844)

——, ‘The Circulating Libraries and Publishers’,
Pall Mall Gazette,
59 ( July 1894), 3

——,
The Crystal Palace: A Little Book for Little Boys
(London, James Nisbet, 1851)

——,
Cupid’s Garland, or, Love’s Annual Resource, A Collection of Original Valentine Verses, Written expressly for the Work, for Ladies to Declare their Sentiments to Gentlemen, in language pleasing and amusing
(London, Thomas Hughes, [?1820])

——,
A Description of Vaux-hall Gardens. Being a proper companion and guide for all who visit that place
(London, S. Hooper, 1762)

——[W.T.],
The Express and Herald Original Bath Guide, Historical and Descriptive
(Bath, William Lewis, Express and County Herald, [1870?])

——,
Fireside Facts from the Great Exhibition
(London, [n.p.] [1851]) (no title page: information from British Library catalogue) (incorporates much material from
Little Henry’s Holiday
, below])

——,
George Sandford; or, The Draper’s Assistant. By One who has Stood Behind the Counter
(Edinburgh, Thomas Grant, 1853)

——, ‘The [Great Exhibition’s] Catalogue’s Account of Itself ‘,
Household Words
, 74 (1851), 519

——, ‘The Great Exhibition and the Little One’,
Household Words
, 67 (1851), 356-60

——,
Hymen’s Rhapsodies, or Lover’s Themes, A Collection of Original Valentine Verse, Written expressly for this Work, for Gentlemen to Address Ladies in Sonnets, Superior to any other
(London, Thomas Hughes, [?1820])

——,
Jimmy Trebilcock; or, the Humorous Adventures of a Cornish Miner, at the
Great Exhibition, What he Saw and What he didn’t See
(Camborne, T. T. Whear, 1862)

——, ‘The Labourer’s Reading-Room’,
Household Words
, 3 (1851), 581-5

——[‘by the author of “Pleasant Pages”’],
Little Henry’s Holiday at the Great Exhibition
(London, Houston & Stoneman, [1851])

——,
Mama’s Visit with her Little Ones, to the Great Exhibition
(London, [n.p.], 1852)

——,
Mr Goggleye’s Visit to the Exhibition of National Industry to be Held in London on the 1st of April 1851
(London, ‘Tim Takem’in’, [?1851])

——,
Mr Punch at the Seaside, as pictured by Charles Keene, John Leech, George du Maurier, Phil May, L. Raven-Hill, J. Bernard Patridge, Gordon Browne, E. T. Reed, and Others
…([no place of publication], Educational Book Co., [n.d.])

——[T. MacKinlay?],
Mrs Cornely’s [sic] Entertainments at Carlisle House, Soho Square
(Bradford, Blackburn, [1840?])

——,
The New Amusing and Instructive Valentine Writer; or The Lover’s Dumb Signs. A Selection of the Newest and Best Valentine Verses, &c. for the Use of Ladies & Gentlemen who wish to learn The Art of Making Love
(Edinburgh, W. Smith, [?1830])

——,
Official Descriptive and Illustrated Catalogue
(London, Spicer Bros, 1851)

——,
The Original Bath Guide, Considerably Enlarged and Improved
(Bath, J. Savage and Meyler and Son, 1811)

——,
The Plan of an Academy for the Better Cultivation, Improvement and Encouragement of Painting, Sculpture, Architecture, and the Arts of Design in General
(London, [n.p.], 1755)

——,
Premiums Offered by the Society Instituted at London for the Encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce
(London, [n.p.], 1768-75, 1783-90)

——,
Puffs and Mysteries; or, The Romance of Advertising
(London, W. Kent, 1855)

——,
The Quizzing Valentine Writer, A Collection of Original Verses, Written expressly for this Work, and calculated to Excite Risibility in all Countenances. Adapted for Both Sexes
(London, Thomas Hughes, [1820])

——,
The Satirical Valentine Writer, Being a Collection of Original Saterising [sic] Verses, Written expressly for this Work, on Various Characters, Calculated to meet the Ideas of all Descriptions of Writers
(London, Thomas Hughes, [1820])

——,
The Seaside Library of Penny Fiction
(Weymouth, Sherren & Son, 1887, ‘New and Enlarged Edition’, 1897)

——,
A Sketch of the Spring Gardens, Vauxhall. In a Letter to a Noble Lord
(London, G. Woodfall, 1752)

——[A Tea Dealer],
Tsiology, a discourse on Tea
(London, [n.p.], 1826)

——, ‘The Unstamped Press in London’,
Tait’s Edinburgh Magazine
, 1 (1834)

——,
A Visit to the Bazaar
(London, J. Harris, 1818)

——, ‘A Visit to Mudie’s’,
Pall Mall Gazette,
39 (11 March 1884), 11

[Ablett, W. H., ed.],
Reminiscences of an Old Draper
(London, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1876)

Ackermann, Rudolph,
The Microcosm of London
(3 vols., London, Ackermann, 1808-9)

——,
The Repository of Arts, Literature, Commerce, Manufactures, Fashions and Politics
(London, Ackermann, 1808-28)

——, ed.,
Ackermann’s Costume Plates: Women’s Fashions in England, 1818-28
, ed. Stella Blum (London, Constable, 1978)

[Adams, W. B., as], ‘Helix’, ‘The Industrial Exhibition of 1851’,
Westminster Review
, April 1850, 97

Aflalo, F. G., ed.,
The Cost of Sport
(London, John Murray, 1899)

Amory, Thomas,
The Life and Opinions of John Buncle Esquire
(1756), ed. Ernest A. Baker (London, George Routledge and Sons, 1904)

Andrews, William,
Master and Artisan in Victorian England: The Diary of William Andrews and the Autobiography of Joseph Gutteridge
, ed. Valerie E. Chancellor (London, Evelyn, Adams & Mackay, 1969)

Archenholz, Johann Wilhelm von,
A Picture of England: Containing a Description of the Laws, Customs, and Manners of England
, tr. from the French (Dublin, P. Byrne, 1791)

Austen, Jane,
Jane Austen’s Letters to her Sister Cassandra and Others
, ed. R. W. Chapman (Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1932)

——,
Northanger Abbey
[1818];
Lady Susan; The Watsons; Sanditon
, ed. James Kinsley and John Davie; intro. and notes, Claudia L. Johnson (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003)

Babbage, Charles,
The Exposition of 1851
(London, John Murray, 1851)

Bamford, Samuel,
The Autobiography of Samuel Bamford
, ed. W. H. Chaloner (London, Frank Cass & Co., 1967)

Barry, James,
An Inquiry into the Real and Imaginary Observations to the Acquisition of the Arts in England
(London, [n.p.], 1775)

Bartlett, David,
What I Saw in London; or, Men and Things in the Great Metropolis
(London, Auburn, 1852)

La Belle Assemblée, or, Bell’s Court and Fashionable Magazine
, 1805-32, also as
La Belle Assemblée, or, Court and Fashionable Magazine; containing Interesting and Original Literature and Records of the Beau-Monde
and
The Court Magazine, and Belle Assembleé

Bennett, John B.,
The Power, Interest, and Duty of the Public to Effect an Abridgment of House of Business. A Prize Address
(London, George Barclay, ‘by order of the Metropolitan Early Closing Association’, 1848)

Bentley, Thomas,
A view of the advantages of inland navigations: with a plan of
a navigable canal, intended for a communication between the ports of Liverpool and Hull
(London, Becket & De Hondt, 1765) (part written by Erasmus Darwin)

Booth, J. B.,
The Old Pink ‘Un Days
(London, Grant Richards, 1924)

——,
A ‘Pink ‘Un’ Remembers
(London, Werner Laurie, 1937)

——,
Sporting Times: The ‘Pink ‘Un’ World
(London, Werner Laurie, 1938)

Boucicault, Dion,
London Assurance
(1841), ed. James L. Smith (London, Adam & Charles Black, 1984)

——,
Plays by Dion Boucicault
, ed. Peter Thomson (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1984)

Bronté, Charlotte,
Jane Eyre
(1847), ed. Michael Mason (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1996)

Brown, J.,
Tourist Rambles in Yorkshire, Lincolnshire, Durham,
…(London, Simpkin Marshall, 1878)

Bunn, Alfred,
The Stage: Both Before and Behind the Curtain
(London, Bentley, 1840)

Burgess, Fred W.,
The Practical Retail Draper: A Complete Guide for the Draper and Allied Trades
(5 vols., London, Virtue & Co., [1912])

[Burn, James Dawson],
The Language of the Walls: And a Voice from the Shop Windows, Or, The Mirror of Commercial Roguery
, by One Who Thinks Aloud (Manchester, Abel Heywood, 1855)

Burney, Fanny,
Cecilia, or, Memoirs of an Heiress
(1782), ed. Peter Sabor and Margaret Anne Doody (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1999)

——,
Evelina, or, The History of a Young Lady’s Entrance in the World
(1778), ed. Margaret Anne Doody (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1994)

——,
The Journals and Letters of Frances Burney (Mme D’Arblay)
, ed. Joyce Hemlow et al., (12 vols., Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1972-89)

——,
The Wanderer; or, Female Difficulties
(1814), ed. Margaret Anne Doody, Robert L. Mack and Peter Sabor (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001)

Byng, John, Viscount Torrington,
The Torrington Diaries
, ed. C. Bruyn Andrews (London, Methuen, 1970)

Campbell, Thomas,
Diary of a Visit to England in 1775
, ed. James L. Clifford (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1947)

Cockburn, Henry,
Journal of Henry Cockburn, Being a Continuation of the Memorials of his Time, 1831-1854
(Edinburgh, Edmonston & Douglas, 1874)

Collins, Louis,
The Advertisers Guardian (and Advertisement Agents’ Guide)
(London, [n.p.], 1885) (published annually from 1885 to 1902, except 1900, 1901)

[Colman, George],
Man and Wife; or, The Shakespeare Jubilee
(Dublin, for A. Leathley, S. Powell, P. and W. Wilson, et al., 1770)

Cook, Dutton,
Nights at the Play
(London, Chatto & Windus, 1883)

Cook, Thomas,
A Hand Book of the Trip from Leicester, Nottingham, and Derby to Liverpool and the Coast of North Wales
(1845), intro. Paul Smith (London, Routledge/Thoemmes Press, 1998)

Cross, J. C.,
Circusiana, or A Collection of the Most Favourite Ballets, Spectacles, Melo-drames, &c., Performed at the Royal Circus, St George’s Fields
(2 vols., London, Lackington, Allen & Co., 1809)

Cust, Lionel Henry, compiler, Sidney Colvin, ed.,
History of the Society of Dilettanti
(London, [n.p.], 1898)