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Price: US$50.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Bound with BOMBASTES FURIOSO; A BURLESQUE TRAGIC OPERA by William Barnes Rhodes (1830) , also illustrated by Cruikshank. A total of 15 illustrations by Cruikshank, most full page. ; 12mo
Seller: Books End Bookshop, Syracuse, NY, U.S.A.
[CRUIKSHANK George]. Tom Thumb: A Burletta. Thomas Rodd 1830, 1830.
Price: US$102.61 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: altered from Henry Fielding, by Kane O'Hara, original pictorial paper wrappers (a trifle dust-soiled), spine chipped with loss, designs by George Cruikshank, advertisement leaf, good. first edition; 34 pages
Seller: Tiger books, Canterbury, United Kingdom
Price: US$195.00 + shipping
Description: 34 pages. 13 1/2 x 10 cm. Seven woodcuts, five full-page and two vignettes. First issue: "In the earliest issues there occurs an error in the pagination, pp. 29/30 being numbered 21/22.The mistake was soon corrected." COHN 615. Two early signatures in ink. Rebacked in boards with front cover paper label. Fine
Seller: Royoung Bookseller, Inc. ABAA, Ardsley, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: 12mo. 16 by 10 cm. 34, [2]. 4, [4] pp. Five plates with Cruikshank illustrations, plus vignettes by Cruikshank on cover, title and last text page. Last four pages noted are two advertising sheets tipped in by publisher, with their size slightly smaller, content on both sides of each sheet. First issue point of pages 28 and 29 misnumbered 21 and 22. Condition: spine, which was distinct -- more than just a fold, has lost most of the wrap paper, and exposed are the gathering folds. Wraps on cobver heavily soiled. Light scattered soiling on the leaves within but reads mostly clean. Clamshell box, with nice walls built to nest the booklet, has some light scratching but one can easily grade Near Fine. Wraps. Modern Quarter Morocco, cloth, clamshell box.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$300.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: 12mo. 16 by 10 cm. 34, [2], 4 pp. Five steel engraved plates of Cruikshank illustrations, and three vignettes, one being on wrap cover. With two tipped in sheets, slightly smaller in size, of publisher's additional advertisements, and printing on both sides of these sheets. First issue -- with misnumbered pages 28/29, showing as 21/22. Wraps. Custom clamshell case, quarter morocco, with cloth exterior elsewhere, marbled paper pastedown interior, and substantial walls creating well for the booklet.
Seller: White Fox Rare Books, ABAA/ILAB, New York, NY, U.S.A.
Price: US$437.50 + shipping
Description: First edition, first issue, 12mo, pp. 34, [2] ads; woodcut frontispiece, vignette title page, 4 woodcut plates by G. Cruikshank plus a vignette tailpiece. "In the earliest issues there occurs an error in the pagination, pp. 29/30 being numbered 21/22" (as here). Cohen 615; bound with: Morton, John Maddison. Box and Cox; a romance of real life, in one act.Embellished with a fine engraving by Mr. Findley. London: published by Duncombe and Moon, 17, Holborn Bars, n.d. [ca. 1847], pp. [3], 6-23, [1]; engraved frontispiece; bound with: Kenney, James. The illustrious stranger; or, married and buried. An operatic farce, in two acts . Embellished with a fine engraving, by Mr. Bonner, from a drawing taken in the theatre, by Mr. R. Cruikshank, London: John Cumberland, n.d. [ca. 1829], pp. 36; engraved frontispiece; the B gathering is misbound before the A, but the book is complete; bound with: Buskstone, John Baldwin. Luke the labourer. A domestic melo-drama, in two acts . Embellished with a fine engraving by Mr. Bonner, from a drawing taken in the theatre, by Mr. R. Cruikshank, London: John Cumberland, n.d. [1830], pp. 47, [1]; engraved frontispiece; Cruikshank's name on title page slightly abraded; bound with: Warren, Henry. Hints upon tints, with strokes upon copper and canvass. London: printed for J. F. Setchel, 1833, pp. [4], 52; engraved frontispiece and 7 engraved plates. A most uncommon spoof on the artist's manual, of which there were many at the time. Together, five titles in a single volume of half polished red calf over marbled boards, spine in five compartments, morocco label ("Plays") in one. Lightly rubbed; good and sound. Ownership signature of Edward Bradley (1827-1889) on front pastedown - Bradley the British clergyman and novelist who wrote under the pen name of Cuthbert Bede.
Seller: Rulon-Miller Books (ABAA / ILAB), St. Paul, MN, U.S.A.
Price: US$450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: Leather joints strong. Loss of marbled paper along much of edges of boards. No splitting to gutters at endpapers. Some foxing and finger marks and smudges. Many tissue guards present. A couple of the engravings in "An Address to the Deil" have been cropped a little in their printed area.; Eight titles bound in one volume. They are: 1. "An Address to the Deil" by Robert Burns. London: William Kidd, 1830. With wood engravings after designs by Thomas Landseer. 23, [1] pages + 7 [of 11?] plates, including frontis. 2. "Tam O'Shanter and Souter Johnny, A Poem" by Robert Burns. Illustrated by Thomas Landseer. London: Marsh and Miller, 1830. 16 pages + 5 plates, including frontis. 3. "The Children in the Wood: With Engravings by Thompson, Nesbit, S. Williams, Jackson, and Branston and Wright; Drawn by William Harvey." London: Jennings and Chaplin, 1831. 15, [1] pages + 6 plates, including frontis. 4. "Monsieur Tonson" by John Taylor. Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. London: Marsh and Miller, 1830. 19 pages + [1] page advertisements + 7 plates, including frontis. 5. "The Devil's Walk: A Poem" by Professor Porson. "Illustrated with beautiful engravings on wood by Bonner and Slader, after the designs of R. Cruikshank." London: Marsh and Miller, no date. 33 pages + [1] page advertisements + 6 plates, including frontis. 6. "Bombaster Furioso: A Burlesque Tragic Opera" by William Barnes Rhodes, with designs by George Cuikshank. London: Thomas Bodd, 1830. 34 pages + 7 plates, including frontis. 7. "Tom Thumb; A Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding by Kane O'Hara. With Designs by George Cruikshank." London: Thomas Rodd, 1830. 34 pages + 5 plates, including frontis. 8. "The March of Intellect, A Comic Poem" by W. T. Moncrieff. London: William Kidd, 1830. 36 pages + 6 plates including frontis. All bound without half-titles. Page dimensions: 158 x 99mm. Contemporary half-leather and marbled boards. Spine title: "Address to the Deil Etc."; 16mo 6" - 7" tall
Seller: Renaissance Books, ANZAAB / ILAB, Dunedin, New Zealand
Price: US$475.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition. first issue with pages 29/30 misnumbered as 21/22). 12mo. 34, [12]pp (ads of various sizes, some on yellow paper). Seven woodcuts by Cruikshank: five are full-page and two vignettes. Original illustrated wrappers (with two additional vignettes). Small, old bookseller description inside front wrap, wear at the corners, and some pages a little dogeared, about very good.
Seller: Between the Covers-Rare Books, Inc. ABAA, Gloucester City, NJ, U.S.A.
Price: US$650.00 + shipping
Condition: Very Good
Description: First edition, first issue (with pages 29/30 being numbered 21/22). 12mo. 7 woodcuts by George Cruikshank, of which 5 are full-page and 2 vignettes (title and last page). Full later tan calf, spine with gilt stamped devices and gilt red morocco label, covers double ruled in gilt with gilt stamped edges, elaborate gilt stamped inner dentelles, blue marbled endpapers, t.e.g. (slight rubbing; small nick at head of spine). This copy has no advertisements. Very good. Gilt stamped red morocco bookplate of Henry W. Poor. Cohn 615: "The first issue.is scarce."
Seller: Houle Rare Books/Autographs/ABAA/PADA, Palm Springs, CA, U.S.A.