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Price: US$51.97 + shipping
Description: first edition 2 vols. 284/280pp+ads.ills.[b/w by cruikshank] VG (brown cloth w.gilt/black dec.stamps to top boards and spines,mod.rubbed and sl.soiled,sl.bumps and mod.wear to extrems.,owner's label to ffeps,prelims.and content edges sl.foxed,some plates detached but present,spines cracked and sl.shaky)
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Price: US$56.53 + shipping
Description: "With numerous illustrations". Ex Cheltenham College library - bookplates, stamps; class-marks. Some foxing; hinges cracked & repaired in both volumes; small ink stain on front board of vol.I; spines worn on both volumes, with dull gilt. Used - Acceptable. Ex lib hardbacks in brown cloth
Seller: Cotswold Internet Books, Cheltenham, United Kingdom
Blanchard Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs [2 Vols]. Chatto and Windus, 1882.
Price: US$60.00 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: 2 vols. Boards detached but present, both volumes, could be repaired by an expert. Otherwise binding is really pretty. Gilt decorated dentelles and backstrips are gorgeous. Minor shelf wear to boards. Textblocks sturdy. Pages/boards clean.
Seller: Books From California, Simi Valley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$61.14 + shipping
Description: first edition 2 vols.284/280pp+32pp catalogue ills.[b/w by cruikshank] VG (brown cloth w.black/gilt dec.stamps to top boards and spines,sl.rubbed and soiled,sl.bumps and wear to extrems.,dealer's label and owner's bookplate to front pastedown both vols.,content edges sl.soiled,spines cracked but tight) tidy set
Seller: Hard to Find Books NZ (Internet) Ltd., Dunedin, OTAGO, New Zealand
Blanchard Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank. Chatto and Windus, 1882.
Price: US$64.89 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Ex library book, usual markings. Volume 1 only. Hardback rebound by library, in good condition. Clean copy, sound binding. Quick dispatch from UK seller.
Seller: Stephen White Books, Bradford, United Kingdom
Price: US$83.41 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Full calf LEATHER, 6 raised bands with red leather title blocks in gilt and gilt decs. 2 Vols, xvi+ 284 & viii+280pp. All plates and illustrations as expected. VG (The volumes have recently been pulled, resewn on three tapes, new mull and back strips applied and re-bound in full calf. A few marginal tears/ loss to foredges and some pencil annotations. Occasional foxing spots to prelim and last few pages. New plain end papers) Please see our images of the actual books offered for sale.
Seller: booksonlinebrighton, Brighton, United Kingdom
Price: US$121.91 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. Hardback. 2 vols. Original brown cloth with titles and illustrations in gilt and black. Light bruising and rubbing to extremities, occasional light foxing to contents, otherwise a very good indeed set. Bookplate to front pastedowns.
Seller: ROBIN SUMMERS BOOKS LTD, Aldeburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$141.16 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: In 2 volumes. xvi, 284; viii, 280 pp. Recent dark brown half morocco over marbled boards. Raised bands to spines with gilt lettering. New endpapers. A few light stains to leaves. Slight damage to one plate. Frontis portrait. Numerous in-text and full-page illustrations by Cruikshank. 8vo.
Seller: Foster Books - Stephen Foster - ABA, ILAB, & PBFA, London, United Kingdom
Price: US$153.99 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: two volumes, original decorated cloth, spines bumped, small puncture mark upper cover volume II, illustrated, scattered spotting, bright, a nice set. from the library of James Early Smith with his armorial bookplate front pastedown volume I and traces of removal volume II; first edition; 284 and 280 pages including appendix
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$155.28 + shipping
Description: FIRST EDITION. 2 vols. Half title, fronts, vignette titles, plates & illus., 32pp cata. (Feb. 1882) vol. II. Orig. brown cloth, pictorially blocked & lettered in black & gilt; spines sl. bubbled, otherwise v.g. 'I am indebted to George Cruikshank's friends for many personal anecdotes, and to my own recollections of him, ranging from my boyhood to his death, for the general outline of the "dear old George", whose humour and eccentricity delighted Dickens, Douglas Jerrold, Thackeray, and their friends for many years.' (Preface.)
Seller: Jarndyce, The 19th Century Booksellers, London, United Kingdom
Jerrold, Blanchard [ Cruikshank, George ]. The Life of George Cruikshank in two Episodes. , 1882.
Price: US$160.41 + shipping
Condition: Near Fine
Description: 2vols, first edn, Chatto & Windus, London, 1882. 8vo, xvi, 284p; viii, 280, 32p cat. Plates & text illustrations. Nr fine set in original pictorial cloth gilt. A nice set on the famous illustrator & caricaturist.
Seller: A G Cram, Leeds, United Kingdom
Price: US$175.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. 8vo. Frontispiece, title vignettes, and 75 illustrations by George Cruikshank. Bibliographical references. Original brown pictorial cloth stamped in gilt and black, black endpapers (tape reinforced front hinge on Volume II, slight foxing to edges). Very good. First full-length biography of Cruikshank.
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$198.91 + shipping
Description: First Edition, 2 Vols, brown cloth lettered & pictorially decorated in black & gilt. As ever some foxing & spotting, mainly associated with the illustrations. Else a very attractive copy of a book more usually found in poor condition, with the bindings here particularly bright & sharp. With 22 plates & numerous text vignettes. The first and principal life. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.
Seller: Adam Mills Rare Books, Cambridge, United Kingdom
Jerrold, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$225.00 + shipping
Description: 284 & 280 pages. 19 x 13 cm. Eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, very bright copy partly unopened. Bookplates free front endpapers of both volumes. Orig. publisher brown cloth spines and front covers decorated in gilt and blind. Near fine. 2 Vols
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Blanchard Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank, In Two Epcohs. Chatto & Windus, 1882.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Edges are gilded and spines have decorative gilt stamping. Generously illustrated throughout, both in color and black & white. Covers are discolored and sunned. Spines are rubbed and are slightly chipping at top and bottom edges. Cover of vol 2 is scuffed. Spine of vol 2 is cracked near front, but binding is otherwise tight. Insides are clean and unmarked.
Seller: Moe's Books, Berkeley, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Description: William Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884), the son of Douglas Jerrold, was a journalist. He contributed to Douglas JerroldÕs Weekly Newspaper and LloydÕs Weekly, and collaborated with Dor in Paris. He published a Life of Napoleon III, with the help of the empress, and a life of his father. Two volumes, octavo. xvi, 284; viii, 280 pp. Over eighty illustrations by Cruikshank, including plates, and text illustrations of various sizes. Dedicated to Gustave Dor. Original brown cloth, stamped in black and gilt. Corners lightly bumped. A very good, bright set. First edition of the first full-length study of George Cruikshank.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.63 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. First edition. 8vo., orig. brown cloth with gilt decoration on upper cover and spine, xvi, 284; viii, 280pp. Inner front hinges cracked, touch of wear to the spine tips but in fact a near fine copy.
Seller: David Mason Books (ABAC), Toronto, ON, Canada
JERROLD, Blanchard. The life of george cruikshank: In Two Epochs. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$320.82 + shipping
Description: In two volumes. xvi, 284; viii, 280pp. With half-titles, a frontispiece to each volume, 14 plates and numerous illustrations in the text. Extra-illustrated with 43 plates (primarily engraved portraits of prominent nineteenth century figures). Near contemporary half-calf, tooled in gilt and blind, marbled boards. Lightly rubbed. Endpapers browned, scattered spotting. A profusely extra-illustrated copy of the first edition of journalist and playwright Blanchard Jerrold's (1826-1884) definitive biography of graphic artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878), primarily remembered for his illustrations supplied for the novels of Charles Dickens. The added portraits in this copy include, inter alia, Sir David Wilkie, Louis XVI, Letitia Landon, Ruskin, Nelson, and Napoleon. Size: 8vo
Seller: Antiquates Ltd - ABA, ILAB, Wareham, Dorset, United Kingdom
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo. xvi, 284pp., 40 ill., viii, 280pp., 42 ill., 87 additional engravings bound in. Original three-quarter vellum over marble boards with gilt ruling and tooling, and gilt lettering on red and black leather labels of spines. Gilt top edges. Marbled endpapers. Frontispiece lithographs. Illustrated title pages. Blue ribbon markers. "If his indefatigable industry failed to bring him the fortune which fashion now lavishes upon his inferiors, he was consoled by the fervid admiration of such critics as Thackeray and Ruskin, and other distinguished contemporaries, whose opinion on his genius I have freely given, as the best aids to a thorough estimate of him as an artist." (Jerrold). Biography of the famous British caricaturist and book illustrator. Cruikshank (1792-1878) was the most prolific caricaturist and illustrator of his time, illustrating close to nine hundred books, among them books for his friend Charles Dickens. Profusely illustrated with eighty-two illustrations, in-text and on plates. Among the additional eighty-seven plates bound in, two folding engravings are designated "Designed, Etched & Published by George Cruikshank" printed below the motif, another is published by Fisher, Son & Co., and one folding engraving by Tilt & Bogue. Altogether seven of the additional engravings are folding plates. Bindings with light wear along edges, small closed tear at foredge of back cover and three small chips at spine of volume II, vellum lightly rubbed. Volume I starting after half-title. Two plates with brown transparent tape repairs, one facing page 113, here the folded lower part loose but present, the other following page 266 of volume one, and two plates facing page 32 in volume two. Bindings in overall good+, interior in very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
JERROLD, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$500.00 + shipping
Description: 2 volumes. 8vo, 3/4 brown calf, marbled boards, ornately gilt spines with green leather labels, rubricated edges (light wear). London: Chatto & Windus, 1882. Very good (+).
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Jerrold, Blanchard. The life of George Cruikshank in two epochs. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$531.25 + shipping
Description: First edition, 2 volumes, 8vo, pp. xvi, 284; viii, 280; inserted frontispieces and title pages, 20 plates and many other illustrations in the text by Cruikshank; contemporary full red crushed levant by H. Wood, London, t.e.g., gilt pointillé spine in 6 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 3, wavy gilt border on covers incorporating 4 oval vignettes after Cruikshank designs; lightly rubbed; very good.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Jerrold, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank In Two Epochs. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$695.00 + shipping
Description: 284 & 280 pages.19 x 13.5 cm. Extra-illustrated, 55 plates from other works, some tinted, most inlaid to size. This, in addition to the eighty-four text vignettes and full-page plates of the standard edition. FREITAG 1974. Fresh, bright set bound by L. Broca, text very clean, raised bands, spine panels richly gilt in floral motifs, triple gilt cover border fillets, inner dentelles, ruby and black leather spine labels, nick to one spine head, marbled endpapers. Contemporary full tan calf. Teg. 2 vols. Near fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$1250.00 + shipping
Description: The Standard Authority For Over A Century Handsomely Bound by Rivière for Henry Sotheran [CRUIKSHANK, George]. JERROLD, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. With Numerous Illustrations. In Two Volumes. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm). xvi, 284; viii, 280 pp. Eighty-four black and white illustrations including two frontispieces and twenty plates. Bound ca. 1882 by Rivière in full red morocco, spines with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Stamped in gilt on front turn-ins "H. Sotheran & Co. London". A fine set. "Jerrold's two volumes reigned for over a century as the standard authority" (Patten), until Patten's definitive two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (1996). Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884), journalist and playwright, was acquainted with Cruikshank through his father, Douglas, a friend of Cruikshank and also a journalist and playwright. "In London Jerrold belonged to a set of young bohemian journalists, miscellaneous writers, and general bons viveurs, including George Augustus Sala, Peter Cunningham, and two of Dickens's younger brothers, that met to dine âthree or four nights a week at certain favourite restaurants'". (G. A. Sala, Life and Adventures, 1, 1895, 441).
Seller: David Brass Rare Books, Inc., Calabasas, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$1500.00 + shipping
Description: Cruikshank, George. With numerous (about 84) illustrations and cuts to which are added about 100 extra illustrations added by Mr. F. Pailthorpe. 2, many double plates and colored by hand. 284; 280 pp. 2 vols. 8vo. Profusely extra-illustrated with the insertion by Mr F. Pailthorpe of about 100 plates in various processes. Over half of the plates are hand-colored and at least 6 are double. Some of the extra plates are quite rare, being illustrations from chapbooks and other ephemeral sources. There are a few proofs before letters on proof tissue. Full blue straight-grained crushed morocco, raised bands, panels richly gilt-decorated by Wood, Binder, London. Covers off, tops of spines with loss. Bookplates of Charles Cooper Townsend and L.B. Rossbach. Fine internally With numerous (about 84) illustrations and cuts to which are added about 100 extra illustrations added by Mr. F. Pailthorpe. 2, many double plates and colored by hand. 284; 280 pp. 2 vols. 8vo
Seller: James Cummins Bookseller, ABAA, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Blanchard Jerrold. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: mid 20th century full decorative morocco, gilt designs of different caricatures in the corners, spine with 6 compartments of raised bands gilt lettering on two and three, upper edge gilt, marbled paste down and free end papers. , At the end of each volume are the original wrappers., Size : 8vo, 2 frontis pieces and this set is an extra illustrated with 100 plates, 34 of which are hand coloured. , Volume : 2 volumes, Volume 1. P. half-title, blank (2), frontis, title, blank, (1), blank, vii-xvi, 1-284; Volume 2. P. half-title, blank (2), frontis, title, blank, v-viii, 1-280. An excellent copy with superb decorative gilt bindings.
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada
Price: US$2000.00 + shipping
Description: First edition of the definitive biography of famed illustrator and satirist George Cruikshank. Octavo, bound in full crushed levant morocco by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt, illustrated. In fine condition. Bookplates. Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime, British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank was, for a time, England's most popular satirist. He illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837â"38) and Oliver Twist (1838). Cruikshank's early work was caricature; but in 1823, at the age of 31, he started to focus on book illustration. He illustrated the first, 1823 English translation (by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine) of Grimms' Fairy Tales, published in two volumes as German Popular Stories
Seller: Raptis Rare Books, Palm Beach, FL, U.S.A.
JERROLD, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank.. London: Chatto and Windus., 1882.
Price: US$2309.88 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: 2 volume set, 7 1/2 inches tall. A wonderful full crushed morocco binding by Riviere with gilt raised bands, very fine gilt tooling to the panels and with triple gilt fillets framing the boards. Gilt dentelles and top edges. With the armorial bookplates of W.H. Lever of Thornton Manor, Sir W. Hesketh Lever, Bart. and Baron, Lord Leverhulme of Bolton-Le Moors, all one and the same and the founder of 'Port Sunlight'. This beautiful set has an extra 89 plates, 34 hand-coloured, bound in, some particularly interesting ones, including Mr. Kean as Richard and as Count Bertram and 2 box tickets for His Majesty's Theatre. A unique set in pristine condition.
Seller: McConnell Fine Books ABA & ILAB, Deal, KENT, United Kingdom
Jerrold, Blanchard. Life of George Cruikshank; In Two Epochs. Chatto & Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$2500.00 + shipping
Description: 8vo. 4 volumes. Volume 1: [xi], 154, [6], pp; v2: 156-284 pp; v3: [viii], 88 pp; v4: 89-280 pp. Illustrated. Full morocco bindings, aeg, fine set. (17617). Illustrated with 270 extra plates, 50 in color. Autographs of George Cruikshank and Cuthbert Bede tipped-in. Bound by Bayntun Binder in full red morocco, decorated with full-color figurative inlays from Cruikshank drawings, gilt lettering & rulings, ribbed spine and doublures.â"Cuthbert Bede, English caricaturist and book illustrator, numbered among his friends George Cruikshank.
Seller: Bauer Rare Books, San Diego, CA, U.S.A.
Jerrold, Blanchard. THE LIFE OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK IN TWO EPOCHS. Chatto and Windus, London, 1882.
Price: US$3750.00 + shipping
Description: First edition. Two volumes. xvi, 284p; viii, 280p. Illustrated in the text and with full-page plates. Illustrated throughout, and Extra-Illustrated with 116 plates, 30 hand-colored. Bound by Bayntun in full tan crushed morocco with marbled endpapers, t.e.g., the spines in six panels with gilt titles and simple floral devices, the covers with triple ruled borders and with Cruikskank's signature in gilt. Very minor chip to crown of volume, else fine - very attractive
Seller: First Folio A.B.A.A., Paris, TN, U.S.A.
Price: US$4000.00 + shipping
Condition: Fine
Description: An elaborate extra illustrated set. Two 8vo volumes. These books contain approximately 170 extra plates, portraits, and miscellany, all bound in. Fifteen plates are hand-colored and many of the plates are folded. There are 66 woodcuts and 8 autograph letters and many plates with facsimile signatures. Bound in late 19th-century red crushed morocco in Kelliegram style by Kelly & Sons. Their stamped signature can by found on the verso of the front free endpaper. The covers and spine are illustrated with various comic characters - almost human but not quite. Cruikshank's signature also appears in facsimile. Leather turn-ins to all four boards. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. The 8 signed letters and/or notes are signed by Prime Minister William Ewart Gladstone, authors, Charles MacKay, S.C. Hall, Lord Haughton (Michael Monckton Milnes - who was a pall-bearer at Cruikshank's funeral) , the editor of the Chruikshank Omnibus Samuel Laman Blanchard, biographer John Forster and poet, R. H. Horne. Cruikshank, perhaps now most famous for his connection with the works of Charles Dickens, was, in his time an incredibly brilliant satirical illustrator, skewering royalty, politicians and anyone he deemed deserving. Not only is this a beautiful two volume set, it is an important document which brings the talents of this amazing artist into focus. Fine.
Seller: First Place Books - ABAA, ILAB, Walkersville, MD, U.S.A.