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[CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE, ILLUSTRATOR]. [Frankum, Richard]. The Bee and the Wasp. A Fable in Verse. With Designs and Etchings by George Cruikshank. London: Charles Tilt, 1832, 1832.

Price: US$450.00 + shipping

Description: 12mo, original printed yellow wrappers. Four plates. Advertisement on the rear wrapper. Without the eight pages of terminal advertisements as called for by Cohen. A fable about a humble bee who wanders too far from home, literally and figuratively, and is taken advantage of by a devious wasp, who encourages him to drink too much. Little is recorded about the author Richard Frankum, who apparently was a physician. In a second edition published by Pickering in 1861, he acknowledges the fine work of Cruikshank in illustrating his fable. Fine copy, enclosed in a cloth chemise, with the bookplate on the front paste-down of the exclusive New York club, The Brook.

Seller: Brick Row Book Shop, ABAA, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.

[Frankum, Richard]. The bee and the wasp: a fable in verse. With designs and etchings by G. Cruikshank. Charles Tilt, 86, Fleet Street, London, 1832.

Price: US$468.75 + shipping

Description: First edition, small 8vo (approx. 6¼" x 4"), pp. 16, [8] ads; 4 etched plates by Cruikshank; original printed tan wrappers, neatly rebacked; very good and sound. Cohn 65.

Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.

Cruikshank, George.. The Bee and The Wasp A Fable.. London,Charles Tilt: 1832. Hardcover., 1832.

Price: US$500.00 + shipping

Description: Cruikshank, George 1st. ed.Designs and 4 Etchings by George Cruikshank-brown smooth leather with hand tooled in gold around inside and outside the cover-spine decorated in gold design-has the 8 pages of terminal ads. fine leather. Please email for info concerning any book or dust jacket. If d.j. does not appear in description, it means there is no dust jacket. Photos on request. Some books may have remainder marks. Heavy and/or oversized books require additional postage.

Seller: Frederick Bayoff Literary Books, Adrian, MI, U.S.A.