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Price: US$76.50 + shipping
Description: vii, 136p., calendared paperstock, plates as called for and hand-colored expertly; first edition hardbound in 11.5x7.5 inch cloth boards gilt, top edge gilded, deeply deckled fore- and bottom edges. No. 212 of 520 copies. An unsophisticated copy with serious flaws; each rim has lost a quarter-inch of cloth, leaving ragged brown card showing. Edges of the boards are frayed, the gilded top edge is mildly irregular, the deckle has picked up a lot of dust and the paperstock though "calendared" is somewhat acidic with toning variations, is even faintly fragile, and has invited offsetting of images. Several internal gutters are lightly cracked. Hinges, however, are quite sound, the pastedown bears a mildly interesting bookplate, plates in very good condition (pace the toning). And, another plus should one be anti-Irish, several plates lampoon dwellers on the auld sod.
Seller: Bolerium Books Inc., San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$96.21 + shipping
Description: Original cloth, title and publisher in gilt to spine, with title to upper cover in gilt, t.e.g. Slightly rubbed, Limited Edition. No. 409 of 520 copies. Ex-libris bookplate of W S Adams. Very good copy
Seller: Chichester Gallery, Chichester, United Kingdom
Price: US$160.35 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: ~TITLE CONTINUES: Fifty-two Comic Designs to Popular Ballards by The Three Cruikshanks, The Elder Isaac, Robert, and The Great George. Coloured by Hand (After the Originals). ~Limited Edition: #330 of 520 copies. Endpapers partly browned. Original navy blue cloth, minor wear to corners and ends of spine. Endpapers uncracked at gutters. No ownership marks. Laid paper, top edges gilt, other edges deckled. No dustwrapper. ~Robust packaging. Overseas tracking available on request. Size: vii, 136pp. 29 x 20cm
Seller: St Philip's Books, P.B.F.A., B.A., Oxford, United Kingdom
Price: US$165.36 + shipping
Description: IN-4 (19,5 X 29 X 3,5 CENTIMETRES ENVIRON) DE VII + (1) ET 136 PAGES, RELIURE DE L'EDITEUR A LA BRADEL PLEINE PERCALINE BLEUE, TITRE DORE SUR DOS LISSE ET SUR LE PLAT SUPERIEUR. ILLUSTRE DE 52 REPRODUCTIONS HORS TEXTE, DONT LE FRONTISPICE, MISES EN COULEURS A LA MAIN. TIRAGE LIMITE A 520 EXEMPLAIRES NUMEROTES, CELUI-CI PORTANT LE NUMERO 24. QUELQUES PETITS DEFAUTS EXTERIEURS SANS GRAVITE, SINON BON EXEMPLAIRE.
Seller: Librairie du Château de Capens, Capens, France
Cruickshanks, Isaac, Robert & George.. The Cruikshankian Momus. John C. Nimmo, London, 1892.
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: By The Three Cruikshank's, the Elder Isaac, Robert, and the Great George. "Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Headings. Fifty-Two Comic Designs to Popular Ballads." Very good, limited edition, this is #220 of 520 copies printed for England and America. Professionally repaired as to upper and lower edges at head and tail of spine. 136 numbered pages. The 52 full-page illustrations are "coloured by hand after the originals." Dark blue cloth covered boards with ornate gilt lettering on front panel and spine. Upper page edges are gilt. Side and lower edges are untrimmed and age-darkened. Board panels are scuffed and with faint stains - see photos. Fore-edge corners are rubbed through. Transfer stains on end papers. The frontispiece has a 3" repaired closed tear near the gutter. Text pages are age-toned and with a few fox-like smudges in the margins, else internally clean. Text block is sound. Please use close-up options for best inspection and in support of condition descriptions. Additional photos available at your request.
Seller: R & G Bliss Books, Excelsior, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$179.59 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Hardback 1st ed 1st printing. No 459 of 520. 136 pp 52 hand coloured plates. teg The book has been professionally rebacked and is in very good condition.
Seller: P Rulton Rare Books, Leominster, United Kingdom
Price: US$185.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: No. 157 of 520 copies. 4to. 29 by 19 cm. vii, [1], 136 pp. 52 hand-colored plates. Spine extremities chipped. Other moderate wear to original cloth. Interior age toned but clean. A tight copy.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Fifty-two comic designs of the the three Cruikshanks [Elder Isaac, Robert and George] colored by hand after the originals. Limited edition, copy 376 of 520 . Crisp, clean signed presentation copy in a florid hand by the editor, Joseph Gregore (?) to Thomas J. Barragg, Esquire with the later's bookplate. Rubbing to backstrip extremities, front cover and spine lettered in gilt with front cover gilt bright. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Very good
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: frontispiece, and 51 plates, all hand-colored, and plain text illustrations throughout. vii, [1], 136 pages. Large 8vo, original blue gilt-lettered cloth, uncut edges, top edge gilt. Head of spine worn and foot pushed; some light staining to cloth, still a very good(+) copy, internally clean. Limited edition -- number 163 of 520 copies.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 4to. 136 pp. Illustrated. Boards,gilt, inner hinge giving, else good. (41542). No. 325 of 520 copies.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$256.55 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo. vii, 136pp. With fifty two comic designs to Popular Ballads by The Three Cruikshanks, coloured by hand after the originals. Off setting to end papers. Bookplate of former owner to fep. In publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt titles. Teg others uncut. Corners and spine ends slightly worn/frayed. A few minor marks and bumps to covers but overall a very good copy. This is copy Number 105 of 520 copies.
Seller: Kerr & Sons Booksellers ABA, Cartmel, CMA, United Kingdom
Price: US$269.38 + shipping
Description: large 8vo., viii, 136pp., 52 fine hand-coloured plates, vignettes in text, some browing to blank front endpaper, gilt top edges, orig. blue cloth, spine and upper cover lettered in gilt, very light wear to some extremities else a remarkably near fine clean bright copy. LIMITED NUMBERED EDITION OF 520 COPIES.
Seller: Geoffrey Jackson, Royal Wootton Bassett, WILTS, United Kingdom
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Number 188 of 520 numbered copies. Fifty-two hand-colored plates, being "Comic Designs to Popular Ballads by The Three Cruikshanks" and numerous black-and-white illustrations in the text. Quarto gilt-stamped dark blue cloth; top edge gilt, rest untrimmed. Very good or better with light wear to spine ends and corners, top edge gilt a little dulled, unavoidable offset to endpapers (from the binding), and few minor dents and scratches to rear cover.
Seller: Quill & Brush, member ABAA, Middletown, MD, U.S.A.
The Three Cruikshanks (Isaac, Robert and George. The Cruikshankian Momus. John C. Nimmo, 1892.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: This Limited Edition copy of the "The Cruikshankian Momus", by The Three Cruikshanks, The Elder Isaac, Robert, and the Great George was published in 1892 in London by John C. Nimmo. This is copy No. 79 of the 520 copies "printed for England and America". The book's title is enhanced by several sub-titles, such as "Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Headings", "Fifty-two Comic Designs to Popular Ballads", and "Coloured By Hand (After the Originals)". In Greek mythology, the Momus of this book's title was the personification of satire and mockery. A book plate, attached to the inner front cover, identifies a previous owner to be B. Jones-Bateman of Pentre Mawr. The book, which measures approximately 7 ¾ inches wide by 11 ½ inches tall by 1 ¼ inches thick, contains vii pages of preliminary matter followed by 136 numbered pages of text with small B&W text illustrations. The 52 plates colored by hand are each on an unnumbered sheet. The book is hardbound in blue cloth covered boards with gilt printing on the front and spine. The pages are gilt edged on top and untrimmed on the other edges. The pages are very lightly tanned, but all text and plates are clear and easily read. There are signs of wear on the cover, particularly at the outer corners and the top and bottom of the spine. The book is overall in very good condition. The illustrations accompanying this description show the book's cover (front and spine), the Title page and frontispiece (2-page spread), and three typical 2-page spreads of text and colored plates. Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811), Scottish painter and caricaturist, was born in Edinburgh and spent most of his career in London. Cruikshank is known for his social and political satire. His sons Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856) and George Cruikshank (1792-1878) also became artists, and the latter in particular achieved fame as an illustrator and caricaturist. [Wikipedia] Isaac Robert Cruikshank, sometimes known as Robert Cruikshank (27 September 1789 - 13 March 1856) was a caricaturist, illustrator, and portrait miniaturist, the less well-known brother of George Cruikshank, both sons of Isaac Cruikshank. Just like them he holds importance as a pioneer in the history of comics for creating several cartoons which make use of narrative sequence and speech balloons. [Wikipedia] George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 - February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience. [Wikipedia]
Seller: Pages For Sages, Beachwood, OH, U.S.A.
Price: US$275.00 + shipping
Description: The Cruikshankian Momus With Fifty-Two Hand Colored Plates [CRUIKSHANK, Isaac, Robert and George]. The Cruikshankian Momus. 'Let Momus rule the day'. Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Geadings. Fifty-two comic designs to popular ballads by the three Cruikshanks, the elder Isaac, Robert and the Great George. Colored by hand (After the Originals). London, John C. Nimmo, 1892. Limited to five hundred and twenty copies of which this is no. 91. Large octavo (11 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 282 x 184 mm.). [vii], [1, blank], [1]-136 pp. Fifty-two hand colored plates. Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine ends a little bumped otherwise a near fine copy.
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$295.00 + shipping
Description: 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Limited edition, copy 187 of 520. Title page printed in red and black. Very crisp, clean copy both images and text. Bound by Birdsall -- raised bands, spines richly gilt in floral motifs. Contemporary three quarter maroon morocco, marbled endpapers and matching endpapers. Teg. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$375.00 + shipping
Description: Edition limited to 525 copies of which this is no. 446, large 8vo, pp. vii, [1], 136; hand-colored frontispiece, 51 plates, plain text illustrations throughout; original blue gilt-lettered cloth, t.e.g.; edges and spine ends scuffed and rubbed; frontispiece detached but present, else interior about fine. Gift inscription at head of title page "from the Editor" to Basil Lewis Dighton, Esq.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$384.27 + shipping
Description: Tall 4to.pp.vii +1 + 136 + 52 p. plates. teg. Fifty-two hand-colored plates, being "Comic Designs to Popular Ballads by The Three Cruikshanks" Crisp, clean unmarked copy. The copy rebound in half calf with raised bands and red title labels. A Very Good Copy Limited edition, copy Number 99 of 520 copies.
Seller: A&F.McIlreavy.Buderim Rare Books, Buderim, QLD, Australia