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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Description: 60, 4 p. numbered, 16 p. unnumbered adverts. "Adorned with a dozen of "righte merrie" cuts, pertaining to the months, and an hieroglyphic, by George Cruikshank." Quarter leather with marbled boards, marbled end papers. Well worn with cracked and chipped leather. Ref.: Douglas, 268. [Loc.28]
Seller: ReREAD Books & Bindery, Little Rock, AR, U.S.A.
Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Black and white illustration. 10.6 x 17 cm. (sheet). Very Good. Light foxing primarily along sheet edges.
Seller: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
George Cruikshank. Illustrations. Charles Tilt, London, 1836.
Price: US$61.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 8vo. 1836. 82(6). 41 plates by George Cruikshank. Illustrations to Fielding, Smollett and Goldsmith.Second edition of this compilation (First published 1832) drawn from 'Roscoes' Novelists Library'. Not in COHN. Age toned in publishers' pictorial cloth gilt. Top and tail of spine slightly worn. Images available on request.
Seller: Bath House Books, Ditchingham, United Kingdom
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Frontispiece, iv, 82p. Original polished calf with gilt ruled boards and spine. Blue endpapers. Small bindery stamp on the inside front blank which seems to read Pooy & Son. Complete with forty-on plates with extracts describing each character. Aside from a small chip in the label, a fresh clean copy in a well preserved and attractive bindings
Seller: Rosenlund Rare Books & Manuscripts, Basking Ridge, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$173.74 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Bound volume 3/4 leather and marbled boards of Cruikshank's Comic Almanack (5 years worth) from 1836-1840, "THE COMIC ALMANACK, FOR 1836 : AN EPHEMERIS IN JEST AND EARNEST, CONTAINING "ALL THINGS FITTING FOR SUCH A WORK." BY RICDUM FUNNIDOS, GENT. ADORNED WITH A DOZEN OF "RIGHTE MERRIE" CUTS, PERTAINING TO THE MONTHS, AND AN HIEROGLYPHIC, BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK." 1836 60 pages, 1837 64 pages, 1838 64 pages, 1839 64 pages, 1840 64 pages. Minor edgewear to cover, inside complete, clean, and tight. Former owner bookplate/calling card attached to inside front pastedown. Marbled page edges, pastedowns and end-papers. The most amusing illustrations in true Cruikshank form.
Seller: Barry's Books, San Antonio, TX, U.S.A.
Price: US$190.00 + shipping
Description: RARE book with 41 plates by the legendary British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank (1792-1878) , praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His most famous work are the illustrations for Charles Dickens' books. This book is a complication of illustrations from eight different books by Henri Fielding, Tobias Smollett and others (see subtitle). Each illustration is accompanied by the corresponding chapter from the respective book. 170x115mm. VIII+82 pages & 41 b&w plates. Brown corrugated cloth Hardcover with gilt lettering on spine. Text block upper edge dyed gilt. Cover stained and lumpy/wrinkled. Cover corners bumped and peeling, edges slightly bumped. Spine edges peeling. Spine front hinges partly cracked. Small part of spine loose with small piece missing. Two strips of scotch tape on spine and cover. First page and plate coming loose from binding. Second plate detached from binding. Pages slightly yellowing. All plates clean. [SUMMARY]: Despite the aforementioned wear to cover and spine, this extremely rare book of brilliant works by the legendary illustrator and caricaturist is in very good condition for its age. The book is in : English
Seller: The Book Gallery, Jerusalem, Israel
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Good, first edition book with title page and 36 plates. 1834 is shown on title page but the last parts were issued in 1836. The 36 plates all have substantial tissue-guards. Professionally repaired as to front spine gutter which appears to have been re-attached. Dark maroon leather covered boards with gilt lettering, border edges and corner decorations on front panel, same on back panel without the lettering. Six multi-ruled panels with gilt borders on spine, five raised bands. Gilt decals in in four panels, gilt lettering in two plus the lower edge at tail. Upper page edges are gilt. Outside board edges also double gilt ruled. Inside dentelles on front and back paste downs. Some smudges and scrapes to board panels - which are darker than shown in photos. Edges at head and tail of board spine and back spine fold are scuffed. Lower fore-edge corners are rubbed through. Minimal rubs on upper fore-edge corners. Some scuffing to all outside edges. The FFEP is detached and has several chips around the edges - see photo.First blank page aft FFEP has a 1 3/8" closed vertical tear at the lower corner parallel to gutter; the blank page following that is separated 1 3/8" at the gutter as is the title page which follows that. Other than the first several pages, text block is stable. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos are available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada may require use of an alternative shipping company which will result in higher than the stated shipping costs. A signature upon receipt may also be required.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
CRUIKSHANK, George. Volume 1 of My Sketch Book. Charles Tilt, (London), 1836.
Price: US$600.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: First edition. Oblong quarto, (7.5 x 11") : [2] leaves (1 wood-engraved wrapper and 1 etched title page), [31] leaves of plates. A good copy in full red levant morocco, with gilt tooling to the spine in six panels with raised bands, gilt fillet borders, marbled endpapers, and all edges gilt. Owner's bookplate on the front pastedown. Originally issued in parts, this portfolio of plates was "sketched, etched and published by George Cruikshank from 1833 through 1836. It consists of the original 24 numbered plates issued from 1833 to 1834, and 7 additional plates issued between 1835 and 1836. This copy includes the original wood-engraved front wrapper titled, "My Sketch Book" followed by an etched title page, "Vol 1 of My Sketch Book". The 24 etched plates are bound out of order: beginning with nos. 21 - 24, 1 - 16, followed by the 7 additional etched plates, and ending with nos. 17 - 20. The front free endpaper, flyleaf and wrapper are detached, with small chips to the corners of the wrapper; and with some soiling, minor browning, and light scattered foxing to the plates. The front board is loose at the outer joint, with moderate wear to the corners and board edges.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$716.34 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: A run of ten issues neatly bound into five volumes in contemporary half calf with marbled boards aeg. Some light rubbing at the edges. Armorial bookplate to the front pastedowns, the contents is clean and unmarked. A fascinating publication, illustrated throughout.
Seller: Temple Bar Bookshop, Dublin, DUB, Ireland
Price: US$780.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 24,7 x 30,5 cm. Circa 1836 Green cloth with gilt lettering on the front cover. [2] leaves (1 wood-engraved and 1 etched title page), [35] leaves of plates. [2 leaves]. Rebacked. Very light diagonal folds to the endpapers. Small missing to the top corner of last endpaper. Slight cockling on front board. Otherwise, in very good condition. Size: 24,7 cm
Seller: abibliodocs, Montréal, QC, Canada
Price: US$2245.71 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue (reissued coloured in 1837, and again without a date by Tilt and Bogue). A scarce and charming Cruikshank publication, produced to aid children in learning the alphabet, illustrated in Cruikshank's instantly recognisable style. Cohn 149; Osborne II, 677. Sextodecimo. Original boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, printed decorative title to front cover and portrait of the bookseller Charles Tilt to rear cover. Fold-out sheet of letters, each with a word and vignette by Cruikshank. Early ownership signature to front pastedown. Light rubbing to binding, still a fresh copy of a fragile volume, the contents clean without repair to folds, small chip at foot of final leaf. A very good copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
Cruikshank, George. My Sketch Book. Charles Tilt, London, 1836.
Price: US$2400.00 + shipping
Description: 22 x 31 cm, 37 hand-colored etched plates, including etched title in No. 1., in the nine original parts. ABBEY LIFE 275. COHN 181. Notes the first six numbers with a printed title were not issued with the parts. He also states, "India proofs of this item were not issued. The work has often been reprinted in inferior style." First state of the second plate in number five. Wrapper No IV is as described by COHN: "The wrappers of Part III are used, and '4' is written in ink over the III with Cruikshank's complaint of Mr. Kidd the publisher." .Backstrip of No. 3 chipped, No. VII cover stained, approx. 9 centimeters from upper spine to the "My" in title, balance of issues are sound, bright and fresh. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good housed in firm, later green cloth box lettered in gilt (spine and front cover) showing some wear to extremities
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.