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Price: US$49.72 + shipping
Description: London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. XX, 196 S. Mit 20 Taf. u. 1 Text-Illustr. Gr.-8vo. (ca. 26 x 18 cm. OLn. mit Goldpräg. u. Kopfgoldschnitt. Erste Ausgabe. - Zu dem englischen Schriftsteller Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-1860) siehe Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. - Einband berieben u. stärker bestoßen, vord. flieg. Vors. fehlt, Gelenke gelockert, stellenw. braunfleckig.
Seller: Antiquariat Reinhold Pabel, Hamburg, Germany
Price: US$70.25 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Red Decorative Cloth, frontis and many full page illustrations by George Cruikshank. Spine relaid and darkened, corners worn, and frayed with losses. cloth a little rubbed and marked, frontis and plates damp stains to the margins, and bottom corner of last 7 plates, afew small stains on pages margins, else all pages in good condition. Small tear in the margins of 1 plate. 197pp. Bookplate of B. Williams. ball. on pastedown. Illustrated with 20 plates. Size: 4to - over 9¾" - 12" tall
Seller: Lazarus Books Limited, Blackpool, LANCS, United Kingdom
Price: US$85.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound in calf by Jeremiah Larkins. Rebacked, with original spine retrained. Some wear, minor loss to spine leather, flaking. Large frontispiece portrait of Falstaff by Cruikshank. 3 preliminary leaves, [xi]-xx, 196 pages, frontispiece, 20 plates, 25 cm.
Seller: Sequitur Books, Boonsboro, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$125.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 26 cm; xx, 196 pages, and 20 plates "drawn and etched by George Cruikshank." Bound in half polished brown morocco over marbled boards, with title and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and gilt rules on boards, by P.B. Sanford. Marble endleaves; top edge gilt. Occasional light scattered foxing, primarily in margins. Bindingly lightly scuffed at edges. Armorial bookplate (ca. 1914) of Isaac Rand Thomas engraved by Sydney Lawton Smith after the bookplate Paul Revere designed for Thomas's 18th-century ancestor.
Seller: Rodger Friedman Rare Book Studio, ABAA, Tuxedo, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo. 20 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece. xx, 196 pp. Publisher's gilt-stamped red cloth; light wear to extremities, small scuff to margin of one plate, bookplate REFERENCE: Cohn 96
Seller: Bull's Head Rare Books, ABAA, ILAB, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Tall 8vo. 20 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including frontispiece. xx, 196 pp. Full polished calf gilt, black morocco spine label, a.e.g., by Zaehnsdorf; joints rubbed and just starting, some scuffing to covers, book-label of Richard Williamson Ellis REFERENCE: Cohn 96
Seller: Bull's Head Rare Books, ABAA, ILAB, Lebanon, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Octavo, xx pages, 196 pages; VG-; late 19th century calf rebinding; spine paneled, with extensive gilt tooling, two dark brown labels with gilt lettering, date 1858 at tail of spine; mild shelf wear and soiling; corners slightly bumped; wear to both joints; chip missing at crown of spine; chipping and cracking to first spine label; chip coming loose at tail of spine; gilt inside dentelles at both boards; all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; contains black and white illustrated plates; pages clean; shelved Case 9. 1353792. Shelved Dupont Bookstore.
Seller: Second Story Books, ABAA, Rockville, MD, U.S.A.
Price: US$150.00 + shipping
Description: Rebound, likely 19th century, AEG, decorative endpapers. Brown leather binding, rubbed. Minor foxing, weak front hinge, pages very lightly browned at edges but supple; tissue guards still in place. Contemporary inscription (1965) on back ffep.
Seller: Westsider Rare & Used Books Inc., New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$154.59 + shipping
Description: FIRST BOOKFORM EDITION, large 8vo, pp. xx, 196 + engraved frontispiece and 19 other plates all by George Cruikshank. Original red cloth, front board and spine blocked in gilt. Occasional minor foxing and soiling. Cloth somewhat darkened, splits in cloth to rear joint and slight wear to head and tail of backstrip, front hinge just cracking at head. Pencilled ownership inscription to front endpaper, a letter loosely inserted (dated 1928) from the publisher W & R Chambers, stating ?this is one of the best copies of Falstaff that I have met with. Copies in original cloth. are now very rare, many having gone to America, never to return? The text is a fictional biography that had been commissioned to accompany Cruikshank?s engravings; the work was originally published in parts.
Seller: McNaughtan's Bookshop, ABA PBFA ILAB, Edinburgh, United Kingdom
Price: US$187.50 + shipping
Description: First book edition, 8vo, pp. [iii]-xx, 196; 20 etched plates by Cruikshank plus a nearly full-page woodcut; later half brown morocco over brown cloth, gilt-decorated spine in 5 compartments, gilt-lettered direct in 1; frontispiece loose, but present; joints and extremities scuffed and rubbed; a good copy. "Falstaff, in Shakespeare's Henry IV, a fat, witty, good-humoured old knight, loving jests, self-indulgent, and over-addicted to snack; a braggart who, when exposed, has presence of mind and resource enough to find some shift to save his face; he seems to exaggerate and boast his vices in order to bring out their humorous side" (Oxford Companion to English Literature). Cohen 96.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$335.90 + shipping
Description: First Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xx, 196; frontispiece, 20 plates including the frontispiece, contemporary full leather fine binding, boards gilt ruled, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, turn-ins with gilt stamped dots and flowers, very good copy. Remembered for his satirical and serious work, Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-60) was a playwright, journalist, poet he was a popular member of "bohemian" circle of journalists, writers and playwrights and together with his brother a founder member of the Savage Club. With a series of inspired etchings by the celebrated artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878), this is a delightful fictional biography, 'from authentic sources', of that most colourful of Shakespeare's characters.
Seller: Time Booksellers, Somerville, VIC, Australia
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Quarto. XX, 196pp. Striking gilt-stamped morocco with gold lettering and tooling on spine and George Cruikshank's signature in gilt on front cover. Raised bands. Gold ruling on covers. Top edge gilt. Dentelles. Handsome binding signed by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. Engraved frontispiece. Pictorial recollection of the most prominent events in the imaginary career of Shakespeare's most humorous character, seen through his genealogy and various episodes of his life, such as "How Mr. John Falstaff was Knighted by King Richard the Second," or his "Disgrace." This work contains 20 stunning etched plates by artist George Cruikshank who depicts twenty scenes from the adventures of Shakespeare's Sir John Falstaff with expressive lines and an abundance of humorous detail. Sporadic and minor rubbing along edges of binding. Slight age-toning along paper margin. Minor and sporadic foxing at verso of plates. Binding and interior in overall good+ to very good condition.
Seller: ERIC CHAIM KLINE, BOOKSELLER (ABAA ILAB), Santa Monica, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$350.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: Illustrated by George Cruikshank. With a Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources. 20 plates, 1 text illustration. 196 pages. 8vo, full brown polished calf, inner dentelles, gilt spine, a.e.g., joints split; hinges reinforced. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. Very good. First edition in volume form, with woodcut bound in after plate list, rather than after t.p. as called for in Cohn 96.
Seller: Argosy Book Store, ABAA, ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$400.00 + shipping
Description: Cohn 96. Large octavo. Twenty plates, plus one leaf of text illustrated by Cruikshank. Contemporary polished calf over marbled boards, marbled endpapers. Front hinge neatly repaired, binding extremities lightly rubbed. Contemporary armorial bookplate ("Joseph Gundry:) on front pastedown. A little light foxing. A very good, clean copy. First edition.
Seller: Michael R. Thompson Books, A.B.A.A., Los Angeles, CA, U.S.A.
Price: US$968.11 + shipping
Description: 8vo. pp. xx, 196. with half-title. 20 etched plates & 1 text illus. by George Cruikshank. full modern morocco (covers slightly bowed, offsetting from some plates, light spotting to title & a few leaves & plates). First Edition in Book Form. Cohn 96.
Seller: D & E LAKE LTD. (ABAC/ILAB), Toronto, ON, Canada