 | 1800 edition.
5 Copper plate engravings
by Tayler after Baynes
published 1797, | 1804 editions
10 wood engravings | 1807 edition
11 stipple engravings pls title
designed & engraved by F.Eginton
1807 | 1830 Britton edition
8 wood engravings
by 5 by Geo Cruikshank & 3 by S.Williams |
| Title | | | | We Threee Blunderheads
S.Williams |
| II | Simkin with a Doctor
"Thanks I - tis all over - my sentence is past,
And now he is counting how long I may last." | A doctor taking Simkin's pulse with 2 ladies in background.
"But I thought I should faint, when I aw him dear Mother,
Feel my pulse with one hand, with a watch in the other" | Simkin with a Doctor
"Thanks I - tis all over - my sentence is past,
And now he is counting how long I may last." | Simkin and the Bath Physicians
Geo Cruickshank |
| III | | "Nymph at thy auspicious birth
Nebe stre'd with flowers the earth" | Engraved title
Nymph at thy auspicious birth
Nebe stre'd with flowers the earth" | |
| | | 3 doctors and a nurse
"And the nurse was so willing my health to restore
She begged me to send for a few Doctors more" | |
| IV | Simkin & 5 doctors
"But a tight little Doctor began a dispute.
About Administration, Newcastle and Bath." | Simkin & 4 doctors
"But a tight little Doctor began a dispute.
About Administration, Newcastle and Bath." | | The Doctors Flying from their own Physic
Geo Cruickshank |
| | | | Simpkin Dancing to the Musicians
Geo Cruickshank |
| VI | Simkin, Tabby in towels & 2 men
"And wou'd you believe it. I went up and found her
In a blanket and two lusty fellows around her" | | 2 lady bathers and old woman attendant
"How the ladies did gigle and set up their clacks
All the hile an old woman was rubbing their backs" | Tabitha in a Bath Chair
Geo Cruickshank |
| VIII | | 3 Women playig cards with a man observing
"And at cards all the night take the trouble to ply
To get back the money they spent in the day" | Frontispiece
4 women playing cards
"They toil not indeed... | |
| IX | | 4 figures around a painting on an easel
"Or to painters we repair,
Meet Sir Peregrine Hatchet there." | 2 men & a woman by a portrait on an easel
"Pleas'd the artists skill to trace
In his dear Miss Gorgon's face" | |
| | | | Frontispiece
S.Williams
Mr.Simkin Dressing for the Ball
"But what with my Nivernois' hat can compare.... |
| XI | | | 2 ladies and a gentleman
"But the Goddess of love, and the graces and all
Must yield to the beauties I've seen at the ball." | |
| XII | | Lady with her male hairdresser
"And first at her porcupine head he begins
To fumble and poke with his iron and pins." | Lady with her male hairdresser
"O cease ye fair virgins such plains to empoy
The beauties of nature with paint to destroy | "A wig en vergette..."
Geo Cruickshank |
| XIII | Man falling from a boat containing Simkin & several ladies
"In handling old Lady Bumfidget and daughter
This obsequious Lord tumbed into the water" | Man fallen from a boat containing Simkin & several ladies
"In handling old Lady Bumfidget and daughter
This obsequious Lord tumbed into the water" | Man fallen from a boat containing Simkin. 2 ladies standing.
"In handling old Lady Bumfidget and daughter
This obsequious Lord tumbed into the water" | |
| XIV | | Roger looking at Prudence in bed
"Just with Roger's head of hair on,
Roger's mouth and pious smile" | Prudence in bed. Roger approaching. "For I dreamed an apparition
Came like Roger, from above
Saying by divine commission
I must fill you full of love" | |
| | | Simkin at his writing desk
"How wretched am I, what a fine declamation
Might be made on the subject of my situation" | |
| Epilogue | Mother in bed and daughter
"And take, she cried, this last bequest,
a dying mother's pray'r" | Sick man in bed, woman tending to him, man crying
"Look on thy aged fater's woe" | Woman in bookshop
"And another good lady of delicate taste.. | |
| | "Sudden arose the awful form of Quin" | | |
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