COBBOLD, RICHARD (1797-1877) .
The History of Margaret Catchpole, A Suffolk Girl. With Illustrations. In Three Volumes.
London: Henry Colburn, Publisher, Great Marlborough Street, 1845 . 0. A fictionalized account of a servant girl transported to New South Wales in Australia for stealing a horse. First edition. 3 volume set in very good matching later half leather bindings, with all eight engraved plates by Richard Cobbold. Green calf spines and corners over green cloth covered boards. Spines sunned, with 5 raised bands, red leather title labels, and gilt volume numbers. Later plain endpapers.Previous owner's details to front free-endpapers and the title-page of the first volume: A. J. Arnold from G. Jackson 2nd Mar 1896". Colophon to verso of title-page and at the base of last leaf) : "Frederick Shoberl, Junior, Printer To His Royal Highness Prince Albert, 51, Rupert Street, Haymarket, London." . All engravingss, soiled, foxed, and toned. Clear English text with a few blemishes to the margins due to previous use. Vol. I. : [2pp.]/[10pp.]/pp.300 with engraved frontis and one further full-page engraving. Vol. II. : [2pp.]pp.299 with engraved frontis and three further full-page engravings. Vol. III. : [2pp.]/pp.236/pp.22 - Adverts, with engraved frontis and one further full-page engraving. ** Referenced by Ferguson, 4009. *** "Richard Cobbold was born in 1797 in the Suffolk town of Ipswich, to John (1746–1835) and the poet and writer Elizabeth (née Knipe) Cobbold (1764-1824). The Cobbolds were a large and affluent family who made their money from the brewing industry. Their name lives on in Ipswich in the firm of Tolly Cobbold. Educated at Caius College, Cambridge, Cobbold entered the church, starting at St Mary Le Tower in Ipswich before moving to Wortham in 1825 with his wife and three sons. He remained there until his death on 5 January 1877. Cobbold is best known as the author of the 'History of Margaret Catchpole,' a novel based on the romantic adventures of a girl living in the neighbourhood of Ipswich, in whom Cobbold's father had taken a kindly interest. For the copyright of this book he is said to have received £1,000. but Cobbold did not make much money by his other literary ventures, which were mostly undertaken for charitable purposes. Thus his account of 'Mary Ann Wellington' brought in no less than £600, much of it in small gifts, for the subject of the book, who was afterwards placed in an almshouse by Cobbold's exertions. In 1822, he married the only daughter of Jeptha Waller, by whom he had three sons. One of the sons, Edward Augustus (born 1825), became vicar of the neighbouring parish of Yaxley, and another Thomas Spencer, a leading parasitologist." - See Wikipedia .
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Keywords: 51953 Cobbold, Richard Henry Colburn the History of Margaret Catchpole, a Suffolk Girl East Anglia: : 19th Century