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Wight, J., and George Cruikshank (Illustrator). Sunday in London. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$55.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated in Fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank, and a Few Words by a Friend of His: With a Copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill. London: London: Effingham Wilson, 1833. First Edition. 8vo. iv,105(1)pp. Engraved frontispiece, title vignette, and plates by George Cruikshank (14 total in b&w). Uncut, in pale pink printed boards, with later, serviceable gray cloth backstrip and endpapers. Boards lightly soiled, edges moderately worn, interior very good. The "Few Words" provided by John Wight. Cohn 846 "This book is difficult to obtain with the boards unsoiled and the back strip perfect." Bookplate of Courtney F. Wilson. ; 14 engravings; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 105 pages
Seller: Dale A. Sorenson, Silver Spring, MD, U.S.A.
Cruikshank, George. Sunday in London. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. Marbled paper-covered boards with green 3/4 leather binding. 105pp. Illustrated in fourteen cuts by George Cruikshank. Covers rubbed & edge-worn. Interior very good.
Seller: Kevin T. Ransom- Bookseller, Amherst, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$95.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo.; in half-crimson morocco over marbled boards, with raised bands and title lettered in gilt to the spine; there is 1" x 2" place of surface loss to the marbled paper at the center of the upper board; illustrated in fourteen cuts, eleven of which are. Very Good binding.
Seller: BLACK SWAN BOOKS, INC., ABAA, ILAB, Richmond, VA, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Description: 105 pages. 19.5 x 12.5 cm. Fourteen wood engravings by George Cruikshank, 11 are full-page with tissue guards, plus three intratextual vignettes. Bright copy plates and text very clean, no foxing or toning. COHN 846. "This work is my own original idea; my friend Wight (the author of `Mornings of Bow Street') wrote the text from my suggestion." Rubbing to extremities, chip to spine label, small book label and book plate (John Francis Neylan). Contemporary three quarter brown calf and marbled boards. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Cruikshank, George. SUNDAY IN LONDON. Effingham Wilson, 1833.
Price: US$148.80 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1st 1833. Almost very good condition with no wrapper. Modern binding. Dark green leather spine with raised bands and burgundy title label with gilt title. Marbled paper boards. 14 b/w tissue-guarded illustrations. Light rubbing to board corners. New endpapers. Scattered foxing throughout. Grubby marks throughout. Packaged with care and promptly dispatched!
Seller: Stella & Rose's Books, PBFA, Tintern, MON, United Kingdom
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Full title: Sunday in London, Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts, by George Cruikshank, a Few Words by a Friend of His; with a Copy of Sir Andrew Agnew's Bill. With frontispiece, engraved title, nine full-page woodcuts and three vignettes. 1st ed., 12mo, full polished tan calf, gilt rules and lettering, t.e.g. [iv] 105 pp. [24 publisher s catalog] A satire on the English Sabbatarians and their leader Sir Andrew Agnew. Condition: Fair. The interior clean and bright overall with few pages darkened or spotted; one page of the catalog with a small closed tear. The major defect is the back board is detached, front board nearly so, and 1/3 of spine chipped away.
Seller: Burns' Bizarre, IOBA, Sacramento, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Rebound in red leather. Covers faded along edges.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, crown 8vo (7.25 x 4.75 inches), pp. iv, (1), 2-105, (1), 11 captioned plates with engraved vignettes, engraved vignette title and 3 engraved vignettes in the text aby George Cruikshank. Old half burgundy morocco and marbled boards, back in six compartments, gilt lettered in the second, five gilt roll tooled raised bands. Very good copy. Sheets and plates clean. The first three lines on p.24 marked through and a correction supplied in an old hand in sepia ink. No owner names or inscriptions. H10730
Seller: J & J House Booksellers, ABAA, Kennett Square, PA, U.S.A.
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, 8vo, pp. iv, 105, [1]; 11 woodcut plates and 3 vignettes by Cruikshank, one of which is repeated on the title page; modern mauve wrappers lettered in black on upper cover; very good. "In George Cruikshank's own copy, sold by Sotheby's in 1878, was the following note: 'This work is my own original idea; my dear friend Wight (the author of Mornings at Bow Street) wrote the text from my suggestion" (Cohen). Cohen 846.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Wright, J.. Sunday in London. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by George Cruikshank. Very good first edition book in brown paper wrapped original boards. Fourteen illustrations including frontispiece, 12 with tissue-guards, two are in-text. Simple lettering with with "PRICE 5 s." on front panel. Advertisement on back panel, paper on spine is rubbed. Boards are soiled overall, cap at head of spine is missing, edge at tail of spine is crimped. Many rub-through on board edges, also fore-edge corner tips. External page edges are soiled and foxed as are internal end papers. Text pages are nicely white and with minimal foxing. A few random pencil notations, mostly on front and back end-papers. Text block is snug. Please use close-up option for best photo inspection and in support of condition description. Additional photos available at your request. International sales to all countries other than the UK and Canada will 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.
George Cruikshank. Sunday in London. Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts.. Effingham Wilson, 1833.
Price: US$200.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 1833 on spine and copyright page. Boards are 3/4 maroon leather or morocco (looks like morocco) with marbled design and bright gilt type and decoration and gilt top edge. Sunning on back board, top 1.5 inch. All engravings and pages present. Marbled endpapers excellent. Interior pages have strong foxing on first few leaves, balance are either clean, modest or light foxing (see photo montage of sample spreads). There are three small pencil doodles on rear end paper else no marks. Overall lovely copy. See photos which are part of description.
Seller: Copper Street Books, Albuquerque, NM, U.S.A.
CRUIKSHANK, George.. Sunday in London.. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: iv, 105 [1] pp. Illustrated in Fourteen Cuts by George Cruikshank. 8vo, original rose printed boards, expertly rebacked retaining original spine. Preserved in a full red morocco solander case. First edition. Cohn 846. Engraved boookplate; light soiling to boards; internally fine.
Seller: Jeffrey H. Marks, Rare Books, ABAA, Rochester, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.45 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: iV + 86 pages + 19 pages of Sir Andrews Bill in full. With 11 woodcut plates and 3 vignette illustration by George Cruikshank inc title page. Rebound in tradition style or early 19th century half calf and marbled paper boards, old chocolate colour endpapers used, title page and a few other leaves have the odd handling marks and some odd foxing, some light stains at bottom corners near spine on a few pages, text not affected. The vignette woodcuts are also free of it. These are charming and some of Cruikshank's best and lively. A humorous look at this issue of Sunday and the sabbath day working practices proposed by this "Bill". The rebind is very sympathetically done and can only still be enjoyed as a seemingly superior original period binding when handled. Small octavo. Author not named, but research shows it to be John Wight, who wrote several works on similar London themes and humour at this period. *NOTE: Sir A. Agnew was Member of Parliament for Wigtownshire in Scotland, 1830-1837. He stood as a moderate reformer, but soon became deeply attached to the cause of Sabbath Day Practices, and pressed for the banning of all secular labour on Sunday. For this purpose he introduced no less than four Sabbath Observance Bills in the Commons, none of which passed. It was the third attempt which drew on him the wrath of Charles Dickens, whose essay Sunday Under Three Heads (1836) is very largely a personal attack on Agnew, whom he described as a fanatic, motivated by resentment of the idea that those poorer than himself might have any pleasure in life. While Dickens made many cogent arguments against the Bill, the strongest perhaps being that people cannot be forced to go to Church on Sunday, his personal attack is probably unjust: the Dictionary of National Biography speaks of Agnew's "genial and kindly nature". He left Parliament in 1837, and no further effort to proceed with a Sabbath Observance Bill was made.
Seller: Colophon Books (UK), Leek, United Kingdom
Price: US$270.70 + shipping
Description: Contemporary black morocco, gilt spine, wide gilt border filets, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Insignificant rubbing; a nice+ copy. Uncommon, particularly in this condition. Scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 105 pages; 11 engraved plates and 3 vignettes by Cruikshank. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books Ltd., Galway, Ireland
Price: US$304.00 + shipping
Description: Contemporary black morocco, gilt spine, wide gilt border filets, gilt inner dentelles, all edges gilt. Insignificant rubbing; a nice+ copy. Uncommon, particularly in this condition. Scans and additional bibliographic detail on request. ; 105 pages; 11 engraved plates and 3 vignettes by Cruikshank. 1 Kg.
Seller: MW Books, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Cruikshank, George [Illustrator]; Wight, John. SUNDAY IN LONDON. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$360.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, 105 pages; VG; in original printed paper covered boards, advertisement printed on back cover; housed in custom burgundy chemise and box, gilt titling to spine of box; paper spine threatening to separate at front hinge; mild wear to boards; With fourteen wood engravings by George Cruikshank, 11 of which are full-page with tissue guards, plus three vignettes; shelved case 10. 1322597. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
John Wight. Sunday in London. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$373.60 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: The first edition of this humorous discussion of Sunday working practices in nineteenth century London, illustrated by George Cruikshank. The first edition of this humorous work authored by John Wight, discussing Sunday and the sabbath day working practices proposed in a bill by Sir A. Agnew, a Scottish MP who was invested in the cause of banning all secular labour on Sundays.Illustrated with eleven plates and three vignette woodcuts by British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank, who was termed 'the modern Hogarth' in his day. Collated, complete.With a contemporary inscription, dated 1833, to the head of the title page.The first edition of this humorous work, providing insight into nineteenth century political satire. Rebacked, in the publisher's original paper covered boards. Endpapers renewed. Handwritten title to back strip, with ink slightly smudged. Bumping to back strip head and tail, with light tide mark to back strip head. Front hinge lightly strained but firmly held. Internally, firmly bound. Inscription to title page. Handling marks and residue to title page, with pages otherwise clean and bright. Very Good
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Wight, J.. [Cruikshank, George] Sunday in London. Effingham Wilson, London, 1833.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Original printed paper covered boards with advertisement printed on back cover. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with 11 full-page wood-engraved plates and three vignettes in the text (one repeated on title page). re-cased with matching paper spine, very good. In older maroon cloth folders and quarter maroon morocco spine, cloth clamshell box.
Seller: Nudelman Rare Books, Seattle, WA, U.S.A.