Cruikshank, George

A fine group of 11 india proof sets and illustrated books including a presentation copy and original drawings, London: 1820-1850, as follows:



Proofs on india paper for "The Man who Lost His Shadow," 8 etchings, each 7 3/4 x 4 5/8 in.; 196 x 116 mm, mounted on old paper, matted. These appeared in the ca. 1857 edition of Chiamisso's classic tale. — Hummingbirds etc. [binding title], an album of 11 caricatures (10 1/2 x 16 3/8 in.; 270 x 415 mm), colored etchings including "Jealousy (Cohn 1251)," "The Root of King's Evil (Cohn 1913)," and "Check Mate (Cohn 989)", ca. 1820-1822, old three-quarter red cloth and green boards — Holiday Scenes, set of 4 colored etchings (10 5/8 x 16 3/8 in.; 270 x 415 mm), dated 1835 in the plates, old three-quarter red cloth and green boards. Cohn 177 — Cruikshank's Illustrations to [John Collier's] Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect. India paper, a proof set of 6 etchings (8 x 5 in.; 204 x 126 mm), mounted, loose in original buff printed wrappers, [London: 1828], in a green cloth folding case, gilt-stamped title on upper cover, Cohn 151 — Illustrations to [W.H.] Ainsworth's Miser's Daughter, London: 1842, proof set of 20 etchings on india paper (9 x 5 1/2 in.; 228 x 140 mm), mounted on boards, green cloth folding case, bookplate of Thomas and Jania Irwin, Cohn 17 — M.H. Barker, Greenwich Hospital, A Series of Naval Sketches, descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man. London: Robins & Co., 1826, 4to (11 1/4 x 8 3/4 in.; 285 x 222 mm), 12 colored etched plates; offsetting on title, some marginal spotting, publisher's pink pictorial boards, in a red quarter morocco solander case, Cohn 53 — R.B. Brough. The Life of Sir John Falstaff. London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1857-1858, 8vo, in 10 original parts, original printed wrappers (all conforming with Cohn save back wrapper to part 4 which appears to be an early state), plus 3 leaves containing 6 pencil drawings by Cruikshank taken from his own album, plus 3 additional illustrations laid in, Presentation Copy to the Editor of the Illustrated Sunday News, inscribed on front flyleaf of part 1, in a brown morocco solander case, Cohn 96 — R.B. Brough. The Life of Sir John Falstaff. London: Longman, Brown, et al, 1858, large 8vo, 20 full-page etchings, publisher's red pebbled cloth with gilt pictorial covers, in a red morocco solander case, Cohn 96 — Six Illustrations to Cowper's Diverting History of John Gilpin ... engraved on wood by Thompson, Branston, Wright, Slader, and White. London: Tilt, 1828, 8vo, 6 etched proofs on india paper; marginal spotting. Publisher's printed wrappers, in a brown cloth folding case, Cohn 169 — Points of Humour. London: Baldwyn, 1823-1824, 8vo, 20 etchings and 20 woodcuts in colored and india proof states; spotting on first title, unbound quires, in a maroon half-morocco drop-box, Cohn 176 — Points of Humour. London: Baldwyn, 1823-1824, 8vo, 20 etchings in colored state with accompanying pen-and-ink drawings bound in, modern red morocco gilt, Cohn 176

occasional offsetting and marginal spotting.
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