CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; CRUIKSHANK, I.R., illustrator; LANE, Theodore, illustrator

Attorney-General's Charges Against the Late Queen, the

London: G. Humphrey, [1821]. Queen Caroline Sliced And Diced By Satirists' Blade Fifty Devastating Hand-Colored Caricatures Directed Against the British Monarchy CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. CRUIKSHANK, I.R. illustrator. LANE, Theodore, illustrator. The Attorney-General's Charges Against The Late Queen, brought forward in the House of Peers, on Saturday, August 19, 1820. Illustrated with Fifty Coloured Engravings. London: G. Humphrey, [1821]. First edition. Folio (18 13/16 x 13 inches; 478 x 330 mm.). [2, title, imprint on verso]. 20 pp. by Robert Gifford, Attorney-General. Hand colored frontispiece and forty-nine hand colored etched plates, the majority being by Theodore Lane. Six of the plates are by George Cruikshank; one is after George Cruikshank; two are by Isaac Robert Cruikshank and one is by George & Isaac Cruikshank. All plates with interleaves. The text & plates are watermarked "J. Whatman 1821" Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1960 in three-quarter dark blue morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine well margined copy, of this series of devastating caricatures directed against the British monarchy, including the republication of the charges brought by the Attorney-General, Robert, Baron Gifford (1779-1826), against Queen Caroline and in support of the Pains and Penalties Bill of 1820 by which George IV, who had only just inherited the throne in 1820 and who hated his wife sought to remove her title and dissolve their marriage. The volume begins with a view of Humphrey's shop-window where 42 of these prints are on view. The focus of these caricatures is Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821) and her alleged affair with Bartolommeo Bergami. She renamed him Pergami (as being more aristocratic) and appointed him Grand Master of the Order of St Caroline. Queen Caroline, on the whole, elicited a great deal of public support and as a result the Bill had to be subsequently abandoned. However, the following year, in July 1821, Caroline was barred from the coronation, fell ill, and died three weeks later. After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, George Cruikshank's attention was largely turned towards highlighting the decadence of Britain's Regency monarchy which was epitomised by George IV while still the Prince Regent. In this collection six of the plates are by George or Isaac Robert Cruikshank or both, the remainder are by Theodore Lane (1800-1828), a painter and engraver who frequently worked on sporting material, especially in partnership with Pierce Egan. It was after this period that George Cruikshank became progressively more sober and serious. This scarce collection of caricatures sharply lampooning Queen Caroline to delightfully deadly effect is not found in the British Museum. Indeed, BM Satires refers to the copy at the Bibliothéque National France, one of only six copies in institutional holdings worldwide. Theodore Lane (1800-1828) was a political lampoonist and in 1820 created a series of satirical images of Queen Caroline at the time of her return to England to claim her rights as consort to George IV. Lane caricatured the queen as a grotesque, overdressed and overweight, accompanied by her Italian lover, Bartolomeo Pergami and the then Lord Mayor of London, Matthew Wood. The Plates: 1. Design for a New Coat of Arms (Frontispiece) 2. Humphrey Printseller & Publisher. 3. Bergami's Little Darling. 4. A Pas de Deux or Love at First Sight. 5. The Choice of Hercules. 6. An Arm-Full of Love 7. The Como-cal Hobby. 8. Winding up to a pitch the Automaton Scaramouch, or Harlequin Courier's Delight 9. The Long & the Short of the Tale, - or, the whole of the concern.. 10. Modesty! 11. The Modern Genius of History at her Toilet.. 12. National Love! 13. Dignity! 14. A gentle jog into Jerusalem. 15. The Saint! 16. Tent-ation. 17. Installation of a Knight Companion of the Bath. 18. Travelling Tete à Tete!! 19. A R_Y_L Visit to a Foreign Capital or The Ambassador not at home!! (George Cruikshank, Cohn 1934) 20. R_y_l Condescension - or a Foreign Minister Astonished! (George Cruikshank, Cohn 1914) 21. Bat, Cat and Mat. 22. A parting Hug at St. Omer! 23. A Wooden Substitute, or Any Port in a Storm. 24. A late Arrival at Mother Wood's. (George Cruikshank, Cohn 1307) 25. Mother Wood, the Popular Procuress! (Robert Cruikshank, Cohn 1763) 26. Mother Cole. 27. Grand Entrance to Bamboozl 'Em. 28. Steward's Court of the Manor of Torre Devon. 29. The Time Piece! & Canning Jack o' both sides. (Robert Cruikshank) 30. The Radical Ladder. (After George Cruikshank) 31. The C-R-L-E Column. 32. Delicious Dreams! 33. The Effusions of a Troubled Brain. 34. Caroline Fair, or Mat Pudding and his Mountebank 35. The Mother Red-Cap Public House, in opposition to the King's Head. (George Cruikshank, Cohn 1761) 36. Carrying Coals to Newcastle!! 37. Moments of Pleasure. 38. The Man of the Woods & the Cat-o'-mountain. 39. The Q-n's Ass in a Band-box. 40. An Old Friend with a New Face or the Baron in Disguise. 41. Meditations at Brandyburgh; or an address to the Sun. 42. Dido in Despair. 43. The whole Truth, or John Bull with his eyes opened. 44. A Going! A Going! the last time, A Going!______Down!!! (George Cruikshank, Cohn 876) 45. Returning Justice lifts aloft her Scale. 46. Lucifera's Procession. Fairy Queen. 47. The Royal Extinguisher, or the King of Brobdingnag & the Lilliputians. (I.R. & George Cruikshank, Cohn 1919) 48. The Grand Coronation of Her Most Graceless Majesty C-R-L-E Columbina the first Queen of all the Radicals.. 49. A Coronation Stool. 50. The Armorial Bearings of the White Cat. (cut and mounted). Bobins IV, 1329; BM Satires 14206, note. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George

British Regalities. The Coronation Reporter;

London: Printed and published by T. Dalby, 1821. The Cartoonist George Cruikshank Transformed into a Wise Reporter of the Coronation of George IV.. CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. British Regalities. The Coronation Reporter; Containing a report of every occurrence and a description of every ceremony connected with the Coronation of His Majesty King George IV. July 19, 1821. Embellished with Views of the most Interesting Scenes, from original drawings. London: Printed and published by T. Dalby, [1821]. First edition of this account of the coronation of King George IV, which took place on July 19, 1821. Small octavo (5 5/8 x 3 3/4 inches; 149 x 95 mm.). Engraved pictorial framed title-page, verso blank, 108 pp. Folding etched frontispiece and two other etched plates. Full red straight-grain morocco, covers decoratively bordered in gilt, smooth spine lettered horizontally in gilt, gray endpapers. Armorial bookplate of Edmund Yates on front paste-down. Front joint expertly repaired. The plates: Coronation of George IV (folding) Return of the Procession from the Abbey (folding) The Champions Challenge & c. "In the H. W. Bruton copy appeared the following note by the latter: A very rare book. I know of one other copy only - that in Mr. Truman's collection. H. W. Bruton. Since writing the above Captain Douglas has informed me that the book is in his collection. H. W. B. A label of the Bath Mechanics' Institution is pasted down on the inner side of the front cover, and pasted down on the inner side of the back cover is the label of the Bath Athenaeum." (Parke-Bernet Galleries, February 26/27, 1942). Cohn 92. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator

Comic Blackstone, the

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. The Comic Blackstone CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. A'BECKETT. The Comic Blackstone. A New Edition. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Two parts in one mall octavo volume (6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 169 x 105 mm.). xii, 252 pp. Engraved woodcut pictorial title-page and engraved woodcut illustration on last page. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in three quarter dark blue calf over marbled boards, smooth spine decorated in gilt and with red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The first edition appeared in two parts in 1844-1846. There were several reissues in one volume from 1846 on. Cohn 1. (First edition). .

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CRUIKSHANK, George

Comic Almanack, the, for 1835[-1853]

London: Charles Tilt & David Bogue, 1835-53. A Handsomely Bound Complete Set of George Cruikshanks's "The Comic Almanacks" [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. The Comic Almanack, for 1835[-1853]: An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing "All Things Fitting for Such a Work." By Rigdum Funnidos, Gent. Adorned with a Dozen of "Righte Merrie" Cuts, Pertaining to the Months, Sketched and Etched by George Cruikshank. London: Imprinted for Charles Tilt, 1835-1841; Imprinted for Tilt and Bogue, 1842-1843; Published by David Bogue, 1844-1853. First editions. A complete set of nineteen small octavo volumes. With 195 etched plates by George Cruikshank, including five folding frontispieces (four hand-colored), wood-engraved text illustrations. Complete with the additional hand colored 'Natural History' plate in the 1837 volume. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Zaehnsdorf for A.C. Mc Clurg & Co. stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in. Full red polished calf, covers bordered in gilt, spines with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, with two maroon morocco labels, lettered in gilt, gilt ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut Original stiff printed wrappers (1835-1849) and cloth covers (1850-1853) bound in. A few wrappers with very light soiling. From the library of Harriett Pullman Carolan 'Carolands' with her engraved bookplate on the front paste-down of each volume. Some joints a little rubbed but still quite sound. A very attractive example. This fine and complete set collates almost identically with Albert M. Cohn's description - the only difference being the second issue of the 1845 issue with the woodcut "Fine Art Distribution" on page 31. Otherwise our set is first issue throughout including the hand-colored natural history plate in the rear ads of the 1837 issue, 'Bogue's Annual Catalogue' at the beginning of the 1847 issue, and the first issue of the 1848 almanack with green wrappers with black print. George Cruikshank's Comic Almanack was the most important of a number of comic almanacks of the late Regency period which parodied and subverted the popular almanack genre to poke fun at their educational aspirations and at society at large. "The text, edited by Mayhew, was contributed to by a host of humorous talent, including Thackeray, who enriched the issues of 1839 and 1840, with two of the best of his minor writings,—'The Fatal Boots,' and ‘Barber Cox's Diary.' The 24 etchings for these years being solely devoted to illustrating these two Miscellanies" (The Notable and Extensive Collection of Illustrated Books and Caricatures from the Private Library of J. Barton Townsend, Esq. of Philadelphia, The American Art Association, 5 February 1919, lot 246). Carolands: The woman who built Carolands, Harriett Pullman Carolan (1869-1956), was the daughter of George Pullman, a 19th-century industrialist, one of Chicago's wealthiest men, and founder of the Pullman Company, famous for its Palace railway cars. In Chicago in 1892, Harriett Pullman married Francis Carolan of San Francisco and moved with him to California. In 1912, she acquired 554 acres (224 hectares) of land in Hillsborough, on which she intended to build a house and garden that would excite "the wonder and admiration of America" and reflect her many refined and cultivated interests. The result was a masterpiece of Beaux-Arts architecture, inspired by the court architecture of Louis XIV. Carolan chose the site, the highest in the neighborhood, for its commanding views of the San Francisco Bay and the surrounding hills. Cohn 184. .

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CRUIKSHANK, Robert

Cruikshank's Trip to Greenwich Fair

London: William Kidd, [1832]. With the Original Printed Wrappers Bound In CRUIKSHANK, Robert. Cruikshank's Trip To Greenwich Fair. A Whimsical Record, Containing the Humorous Adventures of Peter Grace and His Three Daughters; also, of Their Nine Friends, the Muses; Thomas Titter, the Yorkshireman, and Many Others; Together With a Description of the Various Amusements in Greenwich Park, the Fair, &c. &c. The Illustrations On Wood, by Robert Cruikshank. London: William Kidd, n.d. [1832]. First edition. Twelvemo (6 x 3 1/2 in; 154 x 89 mm). 36 pp. Four wood engraved plates including frontispiece, title-page vignette. Printed by Bradbury and Evans. Later full emerald calf for J. Bumpus of Oxford Street with double fillets. Two raised bands. Gilt ornament at spine head and tail. Original wrappers preserved. Bookmark ribbon. Small library stamp to upper margin of front wrapper, still a very fine copy of a rather scarce little book. With the bookplate of the renowned scientific author, barrister and book collector, Sir David Salomons Bart (1851-1925). .

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CRUIKSHANK, George, artist

[Cruikshank's Fairy Library]

London: , 1864. A Complete Set of the Proofs on India Paper of the Twenty-Four Plates in the Series Four Signed in Pencil by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George. [The Fairy Library]. [London: D. Bogue / Routledge, Warne & Routledge, 1853, 1854, 1854 & 1864]. A Complete Set of the Etched Proofs on India Paper of the Twenty-Four Plates in the Series. The four first etchings are each signed in pencil by George Cruikshank. Folio (11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 301 x 219 mm.). Twenty-four etched proofs on India paper (average size of proof 6 7/8 x 5 1/4 inches; 175 x x 133 mm.) all mounted on thick card measuring 11 7/8 x 8 5/8 inches; 301 x 219 mm. Chemised in a quarter red morocco slipcase over red cloth ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, lettered in gilt in compartments. Some light foxing to mounts only. Frederick Arnold (fl. 1862-1874 was George Cruikshank's publisher of the first reissues of the first three volumes of The Fairy Library and the first edition of the fourth volume, Puss in Boots. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library consists of four stories; Cinderella, Jack and the Beanstalk, Hop o' my Thumb and the Seven League Boots, and Puss in Boots. First published, London: D. Bogue / Routledge, Warne & Routledge, [1853], [1854], [1854], [1864]. Cruikshank was already a distinguished caricaturist and illustrator of books for children and adults when he produced this work. His illustrations for the first English translation of Grimm's Fairy Tales were praised widely, but his own rewriting of the fairy tales was criticized, most prominently by Charles Dickens. This was not due to the quality of the illustrations, but because, in line with his temperance beliefs, Cruikshank rewrote aspects of the fairy tales to warn the reader against the evils of alcohol. Thus, for instance, the preparations for Cinderella's marriage include the court throwing all alcohol in the palace on a bonfire; and in Jack and the Beanstalk, the giant is an alcoholic. Dickens, a friend of Cruikshank, was outraged at what he considered to be a betrayal of the essence of fairy tales and, in protest he published an essay in his weekly magazine Household Words entitled Frauds on the Fairies in protest (1853). The Fairy Library was not well-received by Cruikshank's close friend, Charles Dickens. Cruikshank (who wrote the text) in his alcohol abstinence zeal had turned these classic stories into temperance tracts. Dickens, in the October 1, 1853 issue of Household Words, wrote a review, Frauds on Fairies, that harshly criticized Cruikshank for "propagating the doctrines of Total Abstinance, Prohibition.. Free Trade, and Popular Education" (Patten II, p. 339). Yet "so even in Hop and the two stories that followed in the Fairy Library, the illustrations continue to evoke magic kingdoms while the prose cranks out diatribes" (ibid). Later, in 1864, when Routledge wished to continue the series with Puss In Boots, Cruikshank did so "purged of teetotal maxims" (ibid. p. 387) After the financial failure of 1851, or, The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sandboys, who came up to London.. Cruikshank decided to resume fairy tale illustrations.. "Cruikshank's reason for returning to fairy tales was a good deal more pragmatic. He needed money, and since his illustrations for the Brothers Grimm and other nursery favorites had earned him both a reputation and some shillings, he decided to revive those earlier subjects. This time, however, since no authorial collaborator was available, Cruikshank elected to write, embellish, and publish a series of fairy tales all on his own. He approached David Bogue with this proposition in the autumn of 1852; between them they arranged for the artist to receive advances against receipts to cover the cost of "editing" the texts and etching the plates, and for the publisher to make periodic accountings of each title as it was printed and sold. By May of the next year, however, Cruikshank was anticipating his income to such an extent that even before the plates for the first volume, Hop o' my Thumb and the Seven League Boots, were completed he was overdrawn.. Cruikshank finished Hop around the first of June 1853.. The next two volumes in the Fairy Library [The History of Jack & The Beanstalk and Cinderella and the Glass Slipper] were duly issued in 1854.. See Cohn 196-199. .

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Book number: 04690

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: Children's Books Caricatures Fairy Tales Nineteenth-Century Literature

CRUIKSHANK, George

The Cruikshankian Momus. 'Let Momus Rule the Day'

London : John C. Nimmo, 1892. The Cruikshankian Momus With Fifty-Two Hand Colored Plates [CRUIKSHANK, Isaac, Robert and George]. The Cruikshankian Momus. 'Let Momus rule the day'. Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Geadings. Fifty-two comic designs to popular ballads by the three Cruikshanks, the elder Isaac, Robert and the Great George. Colored by hand (After the Originals). London, John C. Nimmo, 1892. Limited to five hundred and twenty copies of which this is no. 91. Large octavo (11 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 282 x 184 mm.). [vii], [1, blank], [1]-136 pp. Fifty-two hand colored plates. Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut. Spine ends a little bumped otherwise a near fine copy. .

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Book number: 05661

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CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; KOSEWITZ, W.F. von (pseud.)

Eccentric Tales

London: James Robins and Co. 1827. Eccentric Cruikshank [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. KOSEWITZ, W.F. von. Eccentric Tales. From the German of W.F. Von Kosewitz, with Illustrations by George Cruikshank, From Sketches by Alfred Crowquill. London: James Robins and Co. 1827. First edition in book form, originally issued in four parts with five plates each. Octavo (8 7/8 x 5 1/4 in; 227 x 135 mm). 181, [1] pp. Twenty hand-colored aquatint engravings, bound as a suite at front. Quires L and M have been transposed in error by the binder. Original quarter claret cloth over drab boards, printed spine label. Untrimmed. Partially unopened. An occasional light spot of foxing, some wear to extremities as expected, and rubbing to spine label with slight losses. Withal, an excellent copy housed in a red cloth clamshell case. "There is no list of plates, and the position of the plates differs in different copies.." (Cohn). Charles Robert Forrester (1803-1850), who anonymously translated Kosewitz's Tales (but did not write them, as some claim), was an English lawyer and writer, and brother of Alfred Henry Forrester, who illustrated under the pseudonym Alfred Crowquill and here provided the sketches that Cruikshank based his engravings upon. We have been unable to locate an original edition in German. Cohn 471. .

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Book number: 02575

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: KOSEWITZ, W.F. von (pseud.) Color-Plate Books Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, Robert, illustrator; [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, illustrator]; BLACKMANTLE, Bernard; WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy

English Spy, the

London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co. 1825-26. Nineteenth Century Hush-Hush The Private Lives of Celebrities With Portraits by R. Cruikshank and Rowlandson CRUIKSHANK, Robert, illustrator]. [ROWLANDSON, Thomas, Illustrator]. BLACKMANTLE, Bernard (pseud. of Charles Molloy Westmacott). The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious. Drawn From the Life by Bernard Blackmantle. The Illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank. London: Published by Sherwood, Jones, and Co. 1825-26. First edition, first issue in book form, originally issued in twenty-four parts. Two tall octavo volumes (9 5/16 x 5 7/8 inches; 237 x 150 mm.). xxiii, [3], 417, [1, printer's slug]; xv, [1], 399, [1, printer's slug] pp. Seventy-one hand-colored aquatint plates after Robert Cruikshank (68), Thomas Rowlandson (2), and G.M. Brightly (1). Seventy-four woodcut text illustrations and one woodcut plate. First issue with the woodcut The Five Principal Orders of Society (volume 1, facing page 3); Plate 28 (facing page 389 in volume one) misdated "1284" and page 222 in volume two is blank. The plates are watermarked 1823 & 1824. Some offsetting from plates to opposite text leaves. The plates clean and fresh. Full contemporary tan calf, covers with blind 'Greek Key' borders. Expertly rebacked with the original spines laid down. Spines with four shallow raised bands, decoratively ruled in gilt and blind in compartments, red and green morocco labels lettered in gilt, plain gray endpapers, all edges marbled. A very nice copy in it's original binding, albeit repaired. From the library of Sir William Eden, Bart. (1849-1915) with his armorial bookplate to front pastedowns. He was the father of Sir Anthony Eden, who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 6th April 1955 to 9th January 1957. Charles Molloy Westmacott (1788-1868) was a British journalist, author, and editor of The Age, the leading Sunday newspaper of the early 1830s which specialized in scurrilous and satirical gossip about celebrities of the day, who sometimes wrote under the pseudonym Bernard Blackmantle. Westmacott was savagely portrayed by Edward Bulwer-Lytton as the unprincipled gossip-monger ("Sneak") in his England and the English (1833), and was known as the most notorious extortionate editor of his day. While he did accept money to suppress publication of stories, this was legal until the 1843 Libel Act. In the 1840s Westmacott moved to Paris, where he died in 1868. Abbey, Life 325; Bobins II, 738; Tooley, 504; Ogilby, British Military Costume Prints, 211. .

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Book number: 05674

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CRUIKSHANK, George; THACKERAY, (William Makepeace)

An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank

London: George Redway, 1884. With the original Pen & Ink Drawing for the Portrait Frontispiece [CRUIKSHANK, George]. THACKERAY, William Makepeace. An Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank. Reprinted verbatim from the "Westminster Review" edited with a prefatory note on Thackeray as an artist and art-critic by W. E. Church.. with upwards of forty illustrations including all the original woodcuts and a new portrait of Cruikshank etched by F.W. Pailthorpe. London, George Redway, 1884. *One of six copies large-paper copies printed on Japanese Paper. Folio (11 1/4 x 7 1/2 inches; 285 x 190 mm.). Portrait frontispiece in triplicate**. [iv], [i]-xvi, [1]-60, [2, advertisements] pp. Ful page plate "March - Showery" facing p. 49. ** The first is the original pen and ink drawing by F.W. Pailthorpe signed in pencil; The second is a 'first proof' also signed by Pailthorpe in pencil; The third is the final version printed on India paper, mounted. Bound by Jean-Luc Honegger, signed with black stamp 'Honegger' on rear endpaper. Full royal blue morocco, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. With three bookplates on front pastedown: Armorial bookplate 'Virtute et Labore' (John Burges Carmac?); F.S. Bradburn and Adrian W. Flühmann. A fine copy. * According to an old pencil note on the armorial bookplate. A classic essay on George Cruikshank, first published in 1840 in the Westminster Review, during the illustrator's lifetime. William Makepeace Thackeray (1811-1863) was one of George Cruikshank's closest friends. The preface by W.E. Church is in the original edition. Jean-Luc Honegger is a Swiss bookbinder who for decades has been infusing a "second life" to some of the rarest books of the most prestigious collections. He creates bindings that are works of art, made of different kinds of colored leathers and skins and that sometimes require more than fifty hours of manual work. He has adorned the books of the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Bodmer Foundation, among others. His bindings have been exhibited in museums including the Musée d'Art et d'Histoire in Geneva in 2002.  Cohn, 789: for the first edition of 1840; Ray, p. 69: "Thackeray, who remains [Cruikshank's] best critic, particularly praised the 'grotesque beauty' of his earlier work.

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Keywords: THACKERAY, (William Makepeace) Fine Bindings Biography Caricatures Nineteenth-Century Literature

CRUIKSHANK, George; BLANCHARD, Laman; BIRDSALL, binder

George Cruikshank's Omnibus

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. George Cruikshank's Omnibus First Edition, Finely Bound by Birdsall of Northampton [CRUIKSHANK, George]. George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition. Large octavo (9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches; 238 x 146 mm.). [viii], 300 pp. Engraved portrait, engraved pictorial preface, twenty engraved plates and seventy-eight woodcuts in the text. Bound ca. 1910 by Birdsall of Northampton (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full dark green morocco, covers with multiple gilt borders and corner decorations, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Original gilt decorated dark green cloth front cover and spine bound in at end. Minimal fading to spine otherwise fine. "First issued in nine monthly parts from May 1841 to January 1842. The bound volumes were first issued in green and subsequently red cloth.. Of the 22 engravings on steel and the 78 woodcuts, all are by G.C. with the exception of three of the steel engravings.." (Cohn). Cruikshank became increasingly disenchanted with the publisher Bentley while working with William Harrison Ainsworth illustrating his novels. Despite financial woes and the illness of his wife, Cruikshank separated from Bentley and became attached to secondary publishers like Tilt and Bogue. In May, 1841, he started Omnibus as his personal outlet. Laman Blanchard was the editor and Ainsworth the sub-editor. Other authors include Merle, Marryat, Thackeray and "Bowman Tiller." It had the characteristic comic cover of the rear of a crowded omnibus pulling away. George drew the image and it was engraved by his nephew Percy Cruikshank, although George was angry with him for calling himself "Cruikshank the Younger. "The contents are articles in a comic vein including a serialized novel and the miscellany entitled "Omnibus Chat." Cohn, 190. .

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Keywords: BLANCHARD, Laman BIRDSALL, binder Fine Bindings Caricatures Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, George; BEDFORD, Francis, binder

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library

London: D. Bogue, 1853. A Complete Set of The Fairy Library With all of the Plates in Two States - Hand-Colored and Plain The First Three Titles Boldly Signed By Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. [Comprising:] Hop-O'My-Thumb and The Seven-League Boots. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, [1853]. [Together with:] The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, [1854]. [And:] Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on steel, by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, [1854]. [And:] Puss in Boots. Edited and illustrated with etchings on steel, by George Cruikshank. London: Routledge, Warne & Routledge.. F. Arnold, [1864]. First edition, (**most probably first issues) of all four titles including Puss in Boots which has the notice "To the Public" on the inside of the front cover repeated on separate leaf in different type, and no list of plates. Four octavo volumes bound in one (6 3/4 x 5 1/16 inches; 172 x 128 mm.). [1, title], [2, imprint], [3], 4-30, [1, List of illustrations], [1, blank]; [1, blank], [2, List of illustrations], [3, title], [4, imprint], [5], 6-32; [1, blank], [2, List of illustrations], [3, title], [4, imprint], [5], 6-31, [1, blank]; [i, General Title], [ii, To the Public], [1, title], [2, blank], [3], 4-40 pp. Original green cardboard printed front covers for each volume bound in. The back wrappers are not present. Plates in two states, hand colored and plain. Fifty-one black and white etchings, including frontispieces, on thirty plates. First color plate in Hop O' My-Thumb very slightly chipped at lower right-hand corner (7/8 x 1/8 inch), otherwise fine. Hop-O' My-Thumb boldly inscribed on title-page "To the Revd. Thomas Hugo with the regards of Geo. Cruikshank Augt. 9 1853". The History of Jack & The Bean-Stalk boldly inscribed on the list of illustrations "Revd. Thos. Hugo with the regards of [three indiscernible marks] Geo. Cruikshank". Cinderella and the Glass Slipper boldly inscribed on the recto of the list of illustrations "Revd. Thos. Hugo [three indiscernible marks] with the regards of Geo. Cruikshank". Bound ca. 1880 by Francis Bedford (stamp-signed in gilt on front turn-in). Full citron morocco, covers triple-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, richly decorated and lettered in gilt in compartments. Double gilt-ruled board edges, gilt decorated turn-ins, maroon paper liners and endleaves, all edges gilt. With the bookplates of Francis Wilson and Marshall Reid Anspach on front paste-down. Also with the ink signature of Francis Wilson on the first and second blank leaves. Francis Wilson was a celebrated book collector, author and contemporary of the American poet and journalist, Eugene Field (1850-1895). Marshall Reid Anspach (1895-?) was a successful and popular attorney). Loosely inserted is the original catalog description from the Francis Wilson auction sale (November 6th, 1940). ** The four titles have been bound without the rear wrappers - so they are impossible to authenticate as first issues. However the first three titles are inscribed by George Cruikshank to the Reverend Thomas Hugo and the first inscription is actually dated August 9th, 1853 - described as "A remarkable set.." The Reverend Thomas Hugo (1820-1876). "A ripe scholar, a refined English gentleman, and a stanch High Church priest, he soon attained promotion to a more congenial sphere, and served as curate for six years at St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate. He was elected a Fellow of the Societies of Antiquaries, Literature, the Linnaean, and a host of others. From his pen sprang innumerable lectures, essays, catalogues, histories and reviews. In 1858 he was appointed to the benefice of All Saints, Bishopsgate. Ten years afterwards he was instituted to the rectory of West Hackney. As will be seen on reference to his books, he was a most ardent collector of Bewickiana, - a pursuit in which he spent much time and money.." He wrote The Bewick Collector. A Supplement to a descriptive catalogue of the works of T. & J. Bewick.. London: 1868. (Bigmore and Wyman. A Bibliography of Printing, p. 348). "To the Reverend Thomas Hugo, the foremost collector of Bewick, Cruikshank sent inscribed china paper proofs of the plates [Hop O' My Thumb]" (Patten. George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, Volume 2, p.335). "Much of Cruikshank's remaining years was spent authenticating pictures and sketches and assembling copies of his works for his own collection and for Cuthbert Bede, W.H. Bruton, Sir Percy Fielding, Sir W.A. Fraser, Thomas Hugo, Frederick Locker Lampson, G.W. Reid, Truman, and other enthusiasts." (Patten. George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, Volume 2, p.384). "Princeton's holdings of the Fairy Library are virtually complete, including copies of the earliest issues and sets of china paper proofs of the illustarations for the first three, inscribed by the artist to the Rev. Thomas Hugo and including two autograph letters to the recipient." (Patten. George Cruikshank A Revaluation, p.29). "'Puss In Boots'.. is extremely rare" (Cohn). The Fairy Library was not well-received by Cruikshank's close friend, Charles Dickens. Cruikshank (who wrote the text) in his alcohol abstinence zeal had turned these classic stories into temperance tracts. Dickens, in the October 1, 1853 issue of Household Words, wrote a review, Frauds on Fairies, that harshly criticized Cruikshank for "propagating the doctrines of Total Abstinance, Prohibition.. Free Trade, and Popular Education" (Patten II, p. 339). Yet "so even in Hop and the two stories that followed in the Fairy Library, the illustrations continue to evoke magic kingdoms while the prose cranks out diatribes" (ibid). Later, in 1864, when Routledge wished to continue the series with Puss In Boots, Cruikshank did so "purged of teetotal maxims" (ibid. p. 387) Cohn 196-199. .

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Book number: 04441

Catalogue: English Literature

Keywords: BEDFORD, Francis, binder Children's Books Color-Plate Books Fine Bindings Fairy Tales

CRUIKSHANK, George; ZAEHNSDORF, binder

George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and Illustrated with Ten Subjects, Designed and Etched on Steel, by George Cruikshank

London: D. Bogue [&] George Routledge and Sons, 1854. Cinderella and Jack & The Bean-Stalk Illustrated by George Cruikshank Handsomely bound by Zaehnsdorf CRUIKSHANK, George. George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. Cinderella and the Glass Slipper. Edited and illustrated with ten subjects, designed and etched on steel, by George Cruikshank. London: David Bogue, [1854]. & George Cruikshank's Fairy Library. The History of Jack & the Bean-Stalk. Edited and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. London: George Routledge and Sons, [ca 1870]. First edition of Cinderella and the Glass Slipper; Later edition of The History of Jack and the Bean-Stalk. Small quarto (6 5/8 x 5 inches; 170 x 127 mm.). [1-5], 6-31, [1, blank]; [1-5], 6-32. Twelve etched plates with eighteen humorous scenes. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in full dark blue calf. Covers with triple-gilt borders and circular corner-pieces, spine with five raised bands, decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, three red morocco spine labels lettered in gilt, gilt-ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Original front and rear green printed paper covers. Armorial bookplate of the celebrated Cruikshank collector, the Earl of Mexborough on front paste-down. A fine example. George Cruikshank (1792-1878) was a popular English caricaturist who later became notable for his book illustrations. Some of his illustrated works include Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist (1838) and the first English translation of the Brothers Grimm's Fairy Tales. Displaying remarkable craftsmanship and skill as an etcher, Cruikshank became a household name due to his humorous portrayals of the royal family, the church, the government, the humors of the low people, and the foibles of the great. This notoriety led to a successful period of book illustration. "In the 1840s Cruikshank become an avid teetotaler and advocated for the Temperance Movement. This interest impacted his work and inspired him to write his own fireside tails detailing the perils of drinking. In 1854 Cruikshank produced a work called The Fairy Library in which he altered popular fairy tales to offer temperance lessons. Although the book did not sell well, the effort by the artist to provide lessons to his readers is not without precedent. Many tales have sought to teach amiable qualities and warn against unpleasant traits. Today his etchings continue to be placed among the work of the masters such as Ruskin." (Howard Tilton memorial Library). The library of the Earl of Mexborough was sold by Sotheby, Wilkinson & Hodge in February 1917 "Including a long series of works illustrated by the Cruikshanks.

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Book number: 05508

Catalogue: Children's Books

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CRUIKSHANK, George

Glass and the New Crystal Palace, the

London: J. Cassell, 1853. One of George Cruikshank's Teetotalling Pamphlets With Eleven Fine Woodcut Engarvings CRUIKSHANK, George. The Glass and the New Crystal Palace. With cuts. London, J. Cassell, 1853. First edition of this pamphlet against alcohol. Octavo (8 3/4 x 5 1/2 inches; 222 x 140 mm.). 32 pp. Eleven woodcut engravings in the text. Bound ca. 1900 by Tout in three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt, spine with two raised bands, decoratively tooled and lettered lettered horizontally in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Publisher's front and rear yellow printed wrappers bound in. The vignette on the title-page is repeated on the front wrapper. Front wrapper and title-page nearly detached, otherwise a near fine copy. One of Cruikshank's teetotalling pamphlets inveighing against the opening of the Crystal Palace on Sundays and the attendant sale of alcoholic beverages. With the distribution and consumption of alcohol permitted in the New Crystal Palace, Cruikshank "protested, with some justice, at the hypocrisy that permitted the rich unlimited indulgence while circumscribing the pleasures of the poor. Although several of the illustrations take a light-hearted view of the subject, the pamphlet jabs with right and left" (Patten, II, p. 325). Cohn, 203. .

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Book number: 05634

Catalogue: Illustrated Books

Keywords: Caricatures Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, George

History of the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks, the

London: G. Smeeton, [1813]. The History of the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks With a Hand Colored Frontispiece and a Portrait of Count Platoff by George Cruikshank Albert M. Cohn's Copy [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. The History of the Manners and Customs of the Cossacks; Describing their habitations; singular mode of fighting; Religion; Customs.. Also, the life of the brave Hettman of the Cossacks, Count Platoff.. London, G. Smeeton, [1813]. Sixth edition with considerable additions.. [together with] A Description of the Defeat of the French Army, under the command of Napoleon Bonaparte, by the Allied Armies, Commanded by Field Marshal His Grace The Duke of Wellington, and Field Marshal Prince Blucher, in front of Waterloo, on the 18th of June 1815.. In Barker's Panorama [J. Adlard, Printer], 1816. Octavo (8 1/4 x 5 inches; 209 x 127 mm.). [1-4], 5-20; [1-3], 4-12 pp. The first title with a hand colored frontispiece by George Cruikshank "The Cossacks attacking the French Army under Murat" (signed in pencil by George Cruikshank? in lower left-hand corner)and a full-page woodcut portrait of Count Platoff on page [14], both unsigned. Disbound, housed in [Albert Cohn's] tan paper folder with the original catalog description from the 1942 Parke-Bernet auction pasted to inside of folder. (folder flap neatly repaired). The publication, which bears at the top of the title the mention Sixth edition, with considerable additions, is not dated. However, the publisher George Smeeton's address is 139 St. Martin's Lane (he moved to 17 St. Martin's Lane in 1814) and the text refers to events in the year 1813, allowing it to be dated precisely. A famous Cossack horseman, Count Platov (1751-1818) was one of the fiercest opponents of the Napoleonic army in Russia. He occupied Paris with his troops in 1814: there is no doubt that if the pamphlet had been published after that date, the British publisher would have announced the news with delight.. Extremely rare: OCLC/KVK locate just one copy of the first title (dated 1815) in libraries and institutions worldwide: Brown University (RI, US) and just four copies of the second title: Florida State University (FL, US); DePaul University (IL, US); Johns Hopkins University (MD, US) and The University of Glasgow (UK). Provenance: Parke-Bernet Galleries NY, April 22/23, 1942 (Albert M. Cohn's copy). The only copy located in auction records over the past one hundred years. Cohn, 391. .

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Book number: 05578

Catalogue: Caricatures

Keywords: French History Naval and Military Cruikshankiana