Lot 218
  • 218

[Aliquis - pseudonym, poss. of Richard Marks]

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2,500 - 3,000 USD
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Description

  • [Aliquis - pseudonym, poss. of Richard Marks]
  • A fine group of two English panoramas and a related series of illustrations, as listed below:
  • books
- The Flight of The Old Woman Tossed Up in a Basket. Sketched & Etched by Aliquis. London: D. Bogue, [1844]. Oblong 8vo (8 x 4 1/8 in.; 204 x 105 mm). 10 etched plates in a folded panorama; some light soiling. Publisher’s pictorial boards with red cloth backstrip; extremities rubbed. Lilly / Ball 153. With: an earlier undated edition of the same. London: S. & R. Bentley, [c. 1825]. 8vo (8 3/8 x 5 ¼ in.; 212 x 133 mm). 5 etched plates, hand colored; some light marginal stains. Old drab wrappers. Osborne 688.

- Humpty Dumpty. London: Tilt & Bogue, 1843. Oblong 8vo (3 7/8 x 9 in.; 100 x 228 mm). 8 etched plates in a folded panorama, hand colored, text on inside front cover in Hebrew, Latin, Greek and German. Publisher’s pictorial boards, with text in English; some soiling and a small stain; inscribed on cover “For Little Willis from J.A. Muckle.” Abbey, Life 559.

Condition

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