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Cruikshank, George. Mayhew, Henry. The Comic Almanack and Diary for 1850,1851. David Bogue, London, 1851.

Price: US$138.00 + shipping

Description: Two yearly volumes bound together of the comic almanac. 1850 issue 58 pp engravings throughout; 1851 issue, 58pp engravings throughout but lacking the large folding panoramic frontispiece. Includes the period hand coloured engraving of " Women. As It Ought to Be, or The Ladies Trying a Contemptible Scoundrel for a "Breach of Promise". Classic caricature by Cruikshank, where a court of women, entirely composing the jury, red-robed judges & red-robed barristers) are prosecuting a poor fellow for breach of promise. Steel engraved panorama with original hand color. 15 1/2 x 6 ", with sml. margins. Amongst the ammenities provided in the background are a "Prosecutrix's Boudoir" and a "Tea Room". Wonderful satirical cartoon, title at top reads "A New Court of Queens Bench." Large 12 mo. Bound in half calf with plain boards top of spine chipped with section missing.

Seller: Antipodean Books, Maps & Prints, ABAA, Garrison, NY, U.S.A.

MAYHEW, HENRY; CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. 1851 or the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who Came Up To London to Enjoy Themselves, and to See the Great Exhibition. David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, London, 1851.

Price: US$170.58 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 8vo. Original brown cloth with gilt lettered spine. A few light stains to the front board, wear to the extremities. Complete, with irregular pagination at p. 63. All text and plates present. Plates foxed, two plates with short tears at folds. Folding double plate with cloth tape along upper fold, rear hinge starting, otherwise a relatively clean and tight copy. 9 plates, 1 is a double page plate. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.

Seller: Karol Krysik Books ABAC/ILAB, IOBA, PBFA, Toronto, ON, Canada

(CRUIKSHANK, George) MAYHEW, Henry. 1851: or, the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to Enjoy Themselves, and to See the Great Exhibition. David Bogue nd [1851], London, 1851.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. Woodcut title-page, 10 etched plates (9 folding) by George Cruikshank. [iv], 242 pp. Half dark brown calf and cloth, marbled edges; some foxing to plates. Cruikshank etching from another work pasted to flyleaf, book-plate of Samuel Joshua Cooper, booksellers ticket of James Miles, Leeds First edition in book form following publication in 8 monthly parts; with the error in pagination, omitting pp. 63-4, as called for in Cohn.REFERENCE: Cohn 548

Seller: Bull's Head Rare Books, ABAA, ILAB, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.

Mayhew, Henry; George Cruikshank. The World's Show. 1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who came up to London to "Enjoy Themselves" and to See the Great Exhibition. David Bogue, London, 1851.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: Octavo. 242pp., 10 plates, incl. frontispiece. Original burgundy three-quarter leather over marbled boards with gilt lettering and ruling on spine. Frontispiece engraving. Illustrated title page. with nine engravings designed and etched by George Cruishank. The etchings are bound in variant from pagination indicated in list of illustrations, all present. Plates: Frontispiece, Looking for Lodging, London Crammed and Manchester Deserted (2 plates), The Opera Boxes, The Opening of the Great Bee-Hive, The First Shilling Day, Some of the Drolleries., Odds and Ends, and the Dispersion of the Works., plus illustrated title page. First three and last etching with some damp-staining in plates, others minor or only along edges. The Opening of the grand Bee-Hive with small closed tears at bottom of folds. Lightly age-toned block and light damp-staining at front and back. Wear along edges of binding; front cover attached only at top. Back hinge lightly cracked at top. Small dealer sticker on inside front cover. Stamp of previous owner on front free endpaper.

Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.

Mayhew, Henry. 1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, who Came Up to London to Enjoy Themselves, and to See the Great Exhibition. David Bogue, London, 1851.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: First edition, first issue. Octavo full red polished calf. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with a double-page frontispiece, 8 other folding plates, and 1 single page plate. Front and rear boards off, else a clean copy.

Seller: The Literary Lion,Ltd., Thousand Oaks, CA, U.S.A.

[CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE] MAYHEW, HENRY.. The World's Show.To See the Great Exhibition. London: David Bogue, 1851, 1851.

Price: US$175.00 + shipping

Description: First Edition. Publisher's cloth, binding in the front cover of one part; just a good copy; one folding plate split; front hinge cracked. All books described as first editions are first printings unless otherwise noted.

Seller: Peter L. Stern & Co., Inc, Newton, MA, U.S.A.

Mayhew, Henry (1812-1887). Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). 1851 : or, the adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves", and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank. London : David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1851.

Price: US$194.90 + shipping

Description: Poor binding bound in half aniline calf over worn cloth boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the Lidstone's Devonport and Stoke Public Subscription Library with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; [4], 1-62, 65-242 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., 22 cm. Notes; Illustrated by Mayhew and Cruckshanks. Contents; Illustrations: All the world going to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- Manchester in 1851 -- London in 1851 -- Looking for lodgings -- The opera boxes during the time of the Great Exhibition -- The opening of the great hive of the world May 1 1851 or the industrial exhibition of all nations -- The first shilling day going in, the first shilling day coming out -- Some of the drolleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- Odds & ends, in, out & about the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The dispersion of the works of all nations from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Subjects; Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England). Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) ; Humor). Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) ; Fiction. Great Exhibition (1851 : London) ; Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Great Exhibition (1851 : London) ; Fiction. Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England). English wit and humor 19th century. English literature 19th century. English wit and humor. Social history. Great Exhibition (1851). Street life. Social behaviour. Satire. Cartoons. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland

MAYHEW, Henry and George Cruikshank. 1851: or The Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Sandboys and Family who came up to LONDON to enjoy themselves and to see the GREAT EXHIBITION.. David Bogue, London, 1851.

Price: US$194.93 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: 242pp+illustrations by George Cruikshank mostly folding,all present. Re-backed with brown cloth and gilt titles to new spine, new endpapers. Edges uncut. Original publisher's maroon blind decorated binding is a little faded and worn at extremes. Plates are foxed and there is scattered foxing internally. Pages 63-64 missing as normal due to printing error. Pages 135-137 are loose from stitched binding but present. Odd page has neat repair. Henry Mayhew's comic story of the family's trip to London and the misadventures they encountered.

Seller: Clifford Elmer Books, CHEADLE, CHES, United Kingdom

(CRUIKSHANK, George) MAYHEW, Henry. 1851: or, the Adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and Family, Who Came Up to London to Enjoy Themselves, and to See the Great Exhibition. David Bogue nd [1851], London, 1851.

Price: US$200.00 + shipping

Description: 8vo. Woodcut title-page, 10 etched plates (9 folding) by George Cruikshank. [iv], 242, [2, press notices] pp. Full dark green morocco, t.e.g., by Riviere; joints and tail of spine repaired, two plates cropped with loss to caption First edition in book form following publication in 8 monthly parts; with the error in pagination, omitting pp. 63-4, as called for in Cohn.REFERENCE: Cohn 548

Seller: Bull's Head Rare Books, ABAA, ILAB, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.

Mayhew, Henry (1812-1887). Cruikshank, George (1792-1878). 1851 : or, the adventures of Mr and Mrs Sandboys and family, who came up to London to "enjoy themselves", and to see the Great Exhibition / by Henry Mayhew, and George Cruikshank. London : David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street, 1851.

Price: US$220.00 + shipping

Description: Poor binding bound in half aniline calf over worn cloth boards. Some wear and tear as with age. Remains well preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and sharp-cornered. Provenance; from the Lidstone's Devonport and Stoke Public Subscription Library with its bookplate and library marks. Physical description; [4], 1-62, 65-242 p., [10] leaves of plates : ill., 22 cm. Notes; Illustrated by Mayhew and Cruckshanks. Contents; Illustrations: All the world going to see the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- Manchester in 1851 -- London in 1851 -- Looking for lodgings -- The opera boxes during the time of the Great Exhibition -- The opening of the great hive of the world May 1 1851 or the industrial exhibition of all nations -- The first shilling day going in, the first shilling day coming out -- Some of the drolleries of the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- Odds & ends, in, out & about the Great Exhibition of 1851 -- The dispersion of the works of all nations from the Great Exhibition of 1851. Subjects; Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England). Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) ; Humor). Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England) ; Fiction. Great Exhibition (1851 : London) ; Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Great Exhibition (1851 : London) ; Fiction. Great Exhibition (1851 : London, England). English wit and humor 19th century. English literature 19th century. English wit and humor. Social history. Great Exhibition (1851). Street life. Social behaviour. Satire. Cartoons. Genres; Fiction. Illustrated. 1 Kg.

Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.

MAYHEW, Henry and CRUIKSHANK, George. 1851, or the adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and family who came up to London to "enjoy themselves," and to see the Great Exhibition.. London, David Bogue, 86, Fleet Street,, 1851.

Price: US$261.54 + shipping

Description: [2], 242 p. Mispaginated, omitting pp. 63-64. Pictorial title page and 10 engraved plates by Cruikshank, 9 of them folding. First edition in book form. Slightly later maroon half calf, spine gilt with a contrasting label. Light rubbing on edges and corners. Occasional light spotting of the plates and one plate with a short marginal tear neatly tissued. One plate with the caption shaved by the binder. Overall a very good copy.

Seller: Cobnar Books, Deal, United Kingdom

Mayhew, Henry, & Cruikshank, George. 1851 : or, the adventures of Mr. and Mrs.Sandboys and family, who came up to London to enjoy themselves and to see the Great Exhibition.. London, David Bogue (1851)., 1851.

Price: US$311.89 + shipping

Description: First edition, first printing, of a comic novel by Henry Mayhew, author of London Labour and the London Poor, taking as its theme the succession of mishaps which overtook the Sandboys family on a visit to London to see the Great Exhibition of 1851. The central figure in Mayhew?s narrative, Christopher Sandboys, a gentleman farmer from the Lake District, never gets to visit the exhibition at all (in a literary device not dissimilar to that employed by Hilary Mantell in her novel Wolf Hall, where no one gets anywhere near Wolf Hall itself), but Mayhew vividly conveys the excitement generated by the exhibition both among Londoners and visitors from elsewhere in England and from overseas, and his portrayal of day-to-day life in London in the summer of 1851 as it affected individuals in the Sandboys? family?s social class, although milked for comic effect, remains well worth reading today. In that general context, it is permissible to note that if Christopher Sandboys was educated at St.Bees School (as stated by Mayhew on p.11), he would have been a near contemporary there of the present cataloguer?s paternal great-grandfather. Moreover, the names, occupations and other details given for the residents of Buttermere, Cumberland, where Mayhew places the Sandboys farm, are fictionalised versions of the real names of the inhabitants as given in the 1851 Census, and this may well be the earliest instance of a novelist using recent census data as a peg on which to hang the novel?s narrative.The accompanying illustrations by George Cruikshank, focused on the Great Exhibition itself, usefully complement Marryat?s narrative. The present copy, evidently bound up from the original parts issued between February and October 1851, contains, loosely inserted, the original part covers for Parts I and VIII, and it is worth noting that it must have been George Cruikshank who designed the image that appears both on the volume?s pictorial title leaf and on the front wrapper of the part covers. 8vo. Pictorial title leaf, (2) + (240) pp (numbered 1-62, 65-242, skipping 63-4 as always), (10) etched plates (9 double-page or folding). Contemporary quarter blue calf, cloth sides, rubbed at outer corners, all edges gilt. Nineteenth century ink ownership inscription of Jane Preston. A copy bound up from the original parts, with the original part covers for Part I and Part VIII loosely inserted at front and back of volume. A printed pictorial advertisement leaf, designed by the author and illustrator Watts Phillips for another publication by David Bogue, tipped in after p.62. Plates a little spotted, as usual with this title, but a good, clean copy otherwise.

Seller: Hugh Pagan Limited, Brockenhurst, HANTS, United Kingdom

CRUIKSHANK, George (illus.); MAYHEW, Henry.. 1851: Or, the Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family. Who came up to London to "enjoy themselves", and to see the Great Exhibition.. London: David Bogue, 1851, 1851.

Price: US$487.33 + shipping

Description: First edition in book form, following serial issue, of this humorous satire on a country family visiting the 1851 Great Exhibition, delightfully illustrated by Cruikshank and here very handsomely bound. "Both professional and domestic prospects seemed to brighten around the time of the Great Exhibition. Cruikshank teamed up with Henry Mayhew, as he had for a couple of comic narratives in the late 1840s, to produce an illustrated serial, to be issued monthly during the exhibition, about the misadventures of a Cumberland family who travel down to London on the spur of the moment. 1851, or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys, began bravely enough with a bravura frontispiece showing the whole world going to the exhibition. Unfortunately, neither author nor artist could sustain the story. In the end Mayhew barely cobbled together enough text to fill his pages, and Cruikshank drew plates that sometimes bore no relation to the letterpress. The serial didn't sell, and neither did Cruikshank's plain or coloured etching of the opening of the exhibition, which had to compete with many other single plates and a huge wood-engraving in the Illustrated London News. Prince Albert received a copy early in July" (ODNB). Despite limited success at the time, the work showcases some of Cruikshank's most detailed and packed illustrations, satirizing the Victorian fascination with progress and technology and capturing the scope and spectacle of the event. So too does the broader story offer meaningful social commentary, the Sandboys representing the older generation and rural folk who were confronted with the pace of technological change and the expanding world of the steam age and British Empire. The family are soon lost in the labyrinthine exhibition and confused and bewildered by the exhibits. Cohn 548; Wolff 4687. Octavo (216 x 133 mm). Early 20th-century blue morocco by Bayntun of Bath, spine lettered in gilt, concentric gilt panelling to compartments and covers, gilt-ruled turn ins, marbled endpapers, gilt edges. Original cloth bound at rear. Double-page frontispiece, 8 other folding plates, 1 single page plate, all by Cruikshank. With gap in pagination after p. 63, corrected with advertisement in later issues. Armorial bookplate, by William Phillips Barrett, of Major General Harold Augustus Wernher (1893-1917), of Luton Hoo House, Bedfordshire. Light rubbing at extremities with colour skilfully retouched, some paper repairs with one plate backed, a few plates trimmed into image, contents clean. A very attractive copy.

Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom

Henry Mayhew. The World's Show - 1851 or The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family Who Came up to London to Enjoy Themselves and to See the Great Exhibition. David Bogue, 1851.

Price: US$575.00 + shipping

Condition: Very Good

Description: This is a beautifully illustrated copy of "The World's Show" by Henry Mayhew. "1851: or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys and Family, Who Came up to London to 'Enjoy Themselves,' and to See the Great Exhibition." Published in 1851 (though undated) by David Bogue in London; 1st edition in book form following the serialized edition. The book features wonderful illustrations (many are fold-outs or 2-page spreads) by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK. Handsome, custom-bound copy with three-quarter leather, gilt lettering on the spine with raised bands, and marbled end papers. The book is a fantastic example of Cruikshank's work. Condition: Some very light soiling at the top of the front cover; clean back cover and spine; sharp corners; bright gilt lettering on the spine. Tight binding with no cracks and no loose pages. The pages are in overall very good condition - mostly clean with only a few random, light stains/ink smudges found; no writing found. The 2-page illustration between pages 58 and 59 is torn at the top-right corner (see photo); page 43 has a tear along the outer edge. Overall the book is in very good condition.

Seller: CraigsClassics, Hudson, NH, U.S.A.

The Brothers Mayhew (Mayhew, Augustus & Henry Mayhew). The Good Genius, That Turned Everything Into Gold.; Or, The Queen Bee and the Magic Dress. A Christmas Fairy Tale. Harper & Brothers, New York, 1851.

Price: US$750.00 + shipping

Description: 201 pages and 14 pages of adverts at rear. 17 x 11 cm. Our copy not noted in OCLC which describes two editions by Harper & Brothers. COHN 545 denotes the David Bogue, 1848 publication in six monthy parts. Our copy has two small inked signatures (Emma S. Davis) dated 1850 & 1868 by the same hand. No copies either by Bogue or Harper & Brothers contain seven hand colored plates by George Cruikshank as in this copy. The OCLC copies calls for green ribbed cloth. Our copy in red cloth with front cover and spine lettered and decorated in gilt and blind with yellow endpapers -- front cover endpapers lightly spotted. Text clean and fresh, slight rubbing to extremities. Orig. red cloth lettered in gilt. Aeg. Very good

Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.

Henry Mayhew & George Cruishank. 1851 or the Adventures of Mr. & Mrs. Cursty Sandboys 8 Vol. Serialized True 1st Edition. David Bogue, 1851.

Price: US$1200.00 + shipping

Condition: Good

Description: David Bogue; London, 1851. Trade paperback. Complete 8 Volume Serialized true First Edition. Part 1 to Part 8 complete and present. A Good, paperbacks show some signs of age with some sunning and fragile binding, front cover Part 1 detached but present, few creases and teas to each paperback, age toning to pages, text block edges pulpy, bit musty odor, wear along page and cover edges, all wrapped in a brown cloth clamshell with minimal signs of wear or handling, in a Good, brown cloth and leather slipcase to keep the True 1st Editions presentable and intact. The Slipcase has 5 raised hubs and 6 compartments with the title and author information in gilt lettering, some signs of shelf wear, faint moisture stain (from a cup that was placed on front Slipcase), some wear to corners and some scuff marks to top and bottom. 8vo[octavo or approx. 6 x 9], 242pp. We pack securely and ship daily w/delivery confirmation on every book. Please Note: Depending on site, actual book for sale may differ physically from picture listed. Additional scan(s) are available for any item, please inquire.Please note: Oversized books/sets MAY require additional postage then what is quoted for 2.2lb book.

Seller: Lavendier Books, Foster, RI, U.S.A.