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Price: US$19.24 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Soiled, stained and creased brown card covers, the front lettered in red, creased and torn down front margins, lower 3 cm of spine partially detached. Internally text block hanging on.needs regluing; name and date to first blank; 7 cm x 3 cm stain to base of engraved frontis and 1 cm mark to title page; remaining contents unmarked. Pp xvi, 60 + (2). Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Hugh Hardinge Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Price: US$23.15 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Spine worn, with tape to covers. Front cover detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 60 pp., 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 30 cm. Subjects; Cruikshank, George 1792-1878 English wit and humor, Pictorial. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$35.20 + shipping
Description: Poor copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat dust-dulled and nicked. Spine worn, with tape to covers. Front cover detached. Text remains clear and without blemish. Physical description; 60 pp., 2 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations, 1 portrait ; 30 cm. Subjects; Cruikshank, George 1792-1878 English wit and humor, Pictorial. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 60 pages. 27 x 18 cm. With more than forty illustrations including all the original woodcuts and a new portrait of Cruikshank (frontispiece) etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. Clean, bright copy with wide text margins. COHN 789 (citing the first edition). Ex-library, ownership stamp on title, no exterior marking, corners worn. Recently recased in three quarter brown morocco and aubergine cloth. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$850.00 + shipping
Description: With the original Pen & Ink Drawing for the Portrait Frontispiece [CRUIKSHANK, George]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. Reprinted verbatim from the "Westminster Review" edited with a prefatory note on Thackeray as an artist and art-critic by W. E. Church. with upwards of forty illustrations including all the original woodcuts and a new portrait of Cruikshank etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. London, George Redway, 1884. *One of six copies large-paper copies printed on Japanese Paper. Folio (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 190 mm.). Portrait frontispiece in triplicate**. [iv], [i]-xvi, [1]-60, [2, advertisements] pp. Ful page plate "March - Showery" facing p. 49. ** The first is the original pen and ink drawing by F.W. Pailthorpe signed in pencil; The second is a 'first proof' also signed by Pailthorpe in pencil; The third is the final version printed on India paper, mounted. Bound by Jean-Luc Honegger, signed with black stamp 'Honegger' on rear endpaper. Full royal blue morocco, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With three bookplates on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate 'Virtute et Labore' (John Burges Carmac?); F.S. Bradburn and Adrian W. Flühmann. A fine copy. * According to an old pencil note on the armorial bookplate. A classic essay on George Cruikshank, first published in 1840 in the Westminster Review, during the illustrator's lifetime. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was one of George Cruikshank's closest friends. The preface by W.E. Church is in the original edition. Jean-Luc Honegger is a Swiss bookbinder who for decades has been infusing a "second life" to some of the rarest books of the most prestigious collections. He creates bindings that are works of art, made of different kinds of colored leathers and skins and that sometimes require more than fifty hours of manual work. He has adorned the books of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Bodmer Foundation, among others. His bindings have been exhibited in museums including the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva in 2002. Cohn, 789: for the first edition of 1840; Ray, p. 69: "Thackeray, who remains [Cruikshank's] best critic, particularly praised the 'grotesque beauty' of his earlier work"
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: First book edition. Edited by W. E. Church. Folio. With a frontispiece portrait of Cruikshank etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. Extra illustrated throughout with original etchings and wood engraved plates designed by Cruikshank, including several hand-colored plates (many of which are folded). This copy also includes the original printed leaves of an article published in Scribner's Magazine: "A Collection of Unpublished Letters of Thackeray" (April 1887). Bound in contemporary red half morocco and marbled paper boards, gilt decorated spine with raised bands, marbled endpapers. Some light scattered foxing, near fine. The binding is signed "Ware Binder, Bristol." A beautifully bound and extra-illustrated copy.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.