CRUIKSHANK, George; MAXWELL, William Hamilton

History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798;

London: Baily, Brothers, 1845. Cruikshank's etchings likewise have been hailed as the highest point in his invention and the most tragically terrible of all his graphic works" (Patten) CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MAXWELL, W[illiam] H[amilton]. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; With Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. By W.H. Maxwell, Esq. London: Baily, Brothers, 1845. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 216 x 133 mm.). viii, [1]-477, [1, imprint] pp. Twenty one engraved plates by George Cruikshank and six full-page portraits. Contemporary full dark green morocco, covers ruled in gilt, spine with four raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate "Brighton" on front paste-down. Corners slightly bumped - still an excellent copy. "The United Irishmen launched a full-fledged revolt against British rule in May 1798, but their fight was short-lived. The British and loyal Irish forces swiftly crushed the Irish Revolution. In just five months, the fighting left over 30,000 Irish men, women, and children dead, regardless of their loyalties." (Museum of the American Revolution). "No information survives about Cruikshank's commission to illustrate W. H. Maxwell's History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798. There is, therefore, no way of knowing what attracted Cruikshank to the subject, nor of ascertaining his own views on the rebels, the loyalists, and the British regulars who savagely put down a savage uprising. Conceivably the publisher, A. H. Baily, approached Cruikshank on the basis of the work he had done for them illustrating Barham's son's book, Martin's Vagaries, in 1843. Or they may have been inspired by his historical plates for Ainsworth, or by recalling etchings Cruikshank had made two decades previously for Ireland's Life of Napoleon. Baily's advertisement touts the "bold and graphic sketches descriptive of [the] most startling scenes," and those Cruikshank supplied in abundance: twenty-one full-page steels depicting bloody murders and riotous pillage that exercise his talents in narrative, theatrical tableaux, melodrama, and pathos. Maxwell's account is one of the earliest and most vivid; Cruikshank's etchings likewise have been hailed as the highest point in his invention and the most tragically terrible of all his graphic works. Several authorities have compared them to Goya's Disasters of War, and Thomas Wright judged the plates "equal, if not superior, to anything ever produced by Hogarth or by Callot." Cruikshank is unsympathetic to the rebels, giving them broad fat faces, staring eyes, and wide mouths in contrast to the patrician British; yet even in this propaganda for the established order he humanizes the peasants." (Patten II, pp. 210/211). William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850) was an Irish novelist. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He claimed to have entered the British Army and seen service in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, but this is generally believed to be untrue. Cohn 541; Ogilby, British Military Costume Prints, 620. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George

Humourist, the

London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co. 1819. With the Very Rare First Issue of Volume I CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdoes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d'esprits, &c. Carefully selected. London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co. [n.d. 1819 (Volume I); 1819 (Volumes II-III); 1820 (Volume IV)]. First edition, with the very rare first issue of Volume I (bound from the parts, with the printed title bearing "Vol. I" but no date, and p. 44 headed "Dr Johnson"). Four small octavo volumes (6 1/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 156 x 99 mm.). 226, [2]; 230, [2]; 222, [2]; 226, [2] pp. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. Early twentieth-century full crushed rose morocco by Rivière & Son, covers with multi gilt borders and decorative corner pieces, spines lettered and decoratively tooled in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, all edges rough gilt, dark blue coated endpapers. An excellent copy. With the engraved bookplate of The Library at Carolands on each pastedown. "It had long been held that the first volume only was issued in parts, in green paper printed wrappers, with either a type ornament border or the grotesque woodcut that is found on the boards of the volume, but recently a Part 13 of Vol. 2 came into the possession of Mr. F.J. Callcott who has kindly lent it to me for reproduction. It is therefore clear that the first two volumes were certainly first issued in parts and probably all four, and Douglas was incorrect in his assumption. A complete set of even the ten parts comprising the first volume is unknown in the original wrappers. The first issue should be therefore bound from the parts, is never genuinely found in the original boards, and should have the words "Vol. 1," on the printed title, but no date. The first issue of the volume in the printed boards has the date 1819 upon the printed title, but not the words "Vol. 1." The second issue has both the date 1819 and the words "Vol. 1" on the printed title. There are ten coloured etchings, including the engraved title, to each volume, all dated and with the imprint of J. Robins & Co. except the vignette titles, plate 7 of Vol. 2, and plate 4 of Vol. 3 which do not have the date, although with the imprint; this is a "point" of the first issue as in later issues, several plates are without imprint or date. Vol. 1 was reissued in 1822, so dated on the title, the dates running 1822, 1819, 1819, 1820. There are differences in the letterpress of this reissue. Notably at p. 44, where in the first issue the tale is "Dr. Johnson," while in the 1822 reissue it is "Epitaph on a Dyer." (Cohn). The Humourist "gave Cruikshank his first sustained opportunity to devise illustrations; Blanchard Jerrold calls it ‘his first remarkable separate work.' Robins issued forty six-penny parts..with a colored etching in each, during 1819 and 1820..The vignette title page for volume 4 shows a grotesque dandy holding a cocked hat, grinning at the audience from a stage whose proscenium arch is decorated with swagged curtains and comic masks. The illustrations preserve that sense of theater: each scene takes place within a frame surmounted by emblematic props aspiring to a pedimental shape and supported by a base on which the title is inscribed, along with additional scenes and props" (Patten, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art, I, p. 190). The first issue of Volume I is very rare; sets nearly always appear with it from the later re-issue (title-page dated "1822"). Cohn 419. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George

Humourist, the

London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co. 1819. Rare in the Original Pictorial Boards Forty Hand Colored Etchings by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d'esprits, &c. Carefully selected. London: Printed and Published by J. Robins & Co. 1822, 1819, 1819, 1820. First edition, second issue with title page to volume I dated 1822 and "Epitaph on a Dyer" on page 44. Four small octavo volumes (6 13/16 x 3 15/16 inches; 173 x 100 mm.). 226, [2, list of plates & advertisements]; 230, [2, list of plates & advertisements]; 222, [2, list of plates & advertisements]; 226, [2, list of plates & advertisements] pp. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. The plates in volume one bound in as per list of plates; The plates in volumes II, III, & IV bound between pages 12/13, 8/9 & 12/13 respectively. Some occasional very light marginal foxing to text leaves only. Page 109/110 in volume II with small hole in top blank margin and small stain, page 181/182 with repaired tear on blank fore-margin; Vol III with small stain on page 9/10. Publisher's pictorial tan boards uncut, printed in black. The first volume slightly darkened and with small piece (1/2 x 3/4 inch) missing from lower portion of spine not affecting print. Some light rubbing to boards, otherwise excellent. Housed in a velvet-lined, quarter dark green morocco over green cloth clamshell case. Four spines, each with five raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. A superb example in the original pictorial tan boards. "Vol. I was reissued in 1822, so dated on the title, the dates running 1822, 1819, 1819, 1820. There are differences in the letterpress of this reissue. Notably at p. 44, where in the first issue the tale is "Dr Johnson," while in the 1822 reissue it is "Epitaph on a Dyer." (Cohn, p.126). "The Humourist. A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, 8c. &c. gave Cruikshank his first sustained opportunity to devise illustrations; Blanchard Jerrold calls it "his first remarkable separate work." Robins issued forty six-penny parts, stitched into green wrappers with a colored etching in each, during 1819 and 1820. The parts were also bound into four volumes. In several respects this format anticipates the one Dickens and his publishers revived in Pickwick Papers and the other serials; so too do Cruikshank's designs anticipate Browne's theatrical frontispiece for that novel. The vignette title page for volume 4 shows a grotesque dandy holding a cocked hat, grinning at the audience from a stage whose proscenium arch is decorated with swagged curtains and comic masks. The illustrations preserve that sense of theater: each scene takes place within a frame surmounted by emblematic props aspiring to a pedi-mental shape and supported by a base on which the title is inscribed, along with additional scenes and props. The Humourist plates also grow out of title-page vignettes that surround a scene with its emblematic reflections and from such generically mixed devices as comic coats of arms, of which Cruikshank did several during this period, including a bloody Radical's Arms, an outrageous Dandies Coat of Arms, and The Boxer's Arms that he "fistit." (Patten I, p.190). Provenance: From the renowned Cruikshank collection of Adrian W. Flühmann. Cohn, 419; Patten I, p.190. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George; CERVANTES, Miguel de

Illustrations of Don Quixote

London: Charles Tilt, 1834. George Cruikshank's Illustrations for Don Quixote Bound together with his Comic Almamnac for 1835. CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. CERVANTES SAAVEDRA, Miguel de. Illustrations of Don Quixote, in a Series of Fifteen Plates, Designed and Etched by George Cruikshank. London: Charles Tilt, 1834. First separately published edition. Small octavo (6 3/8 x 3 7/8 inches; 161 x 98 mm.). [ii], 30 unnumbered pages of text. Fifteen fine engraved plates , all with tissue guards. [bound with] The Comic Almanac, For 1835: 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 nd etched by George Cruikshank. London: Imprinted for Charles Tilt, [1835]. [2, title-page] pp. Twelve fine woodcut plates. Bound by Bauzonet ca. 1900 in full green morocco, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands, paneled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board-edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Publisher's front and back printed wrappers for the 1835 Comic Almanac bound in. Front and back joints very slightly split at top - but sound. A very good copy. This scarce little album, edited by Charles Tilt, contains the full suite of fifteen engravings of George Cruikshank illustrating the Adventures of Don Quixote which had been previously published in volumes XIII-XV of Roscoe's Novelist's Library, London, 1833. Cohn, 710 (three volume 1833 edition). .

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Book number: 05642

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CRUIKSHANK

Improved Art of Riding, the

London: J. Bailey, 1815. The Albert M. Cohn - William Hartmann Woodin Copy [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. LLOYD (G.) & SYMES (R.). The Improved Art of Riding, Exemplified in the Following Rules, To mount a Horse with Ease and Dexterity, and to Sit Him with Grace and Dignity, To Manage the Bridle, whether snaffle or curb; the use of the Whip and Spur, Service of the Leg in the manage of a Horse, To cure a Horse of his Starting or Stumbling, To manage a restive or vicious Horse; And the best methods of Breaking a Colt. Alos, the rules observed and taught in a Menage, or Riding-House; The whole treated in a plain and perspicuous Manner. London, J. Bailey, [1815?]. First edition variant issue (no priority determined). Small octavo (7 3/8 x 4 1/2 inches; 188 x 115 mm.). Engraved folding frontispiece, [2], 3-32 pp. Publishers brown paper stitched wrappers printed in black. Rear wrapper with advertisements printed in black. Housed in a brown card wrapper with the bookplates of Albert M. Cohn. Extremities a little worn, some light dust soiling. Still a very good copy with impeccable provenance. "Folding folded frontispiece in six sections attributed to G. Cruikshank." (Cohn, p. 146). Cohn observes that this book is found with two different addresses for the publisher, but without giving priority to one or the other. This example has "188, Fleet Street" the alternative one has "65 Gray's Inn Lane." Provenance: Albert M. Cohn; William Hartmann Woodin; Adrian Flühmann. Cohn 495 (this copy). .

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CRUIKSHANK, George

Jubilee of 1809, the

London: John Fairburn, [1809]. Exceptionally Rare in the Original Pink Paper Wrappers Initialed by George Cruikshank on the Front Wrapper [CRUIKSHANK, George]. The Jubilee of 1809, containing a poetical epistle, from John Lump, to his brother in Yorkshire. Also an account of the grand entertainment at Cabbage Merchants' hall. With songs.. By the author of the Whale!! With a coloured Caricature Print of two of the celebrated City Chaunters. London, John Fairburn, [n.d. 1809]. First edition of this anti-ministerial satire in verse and prose. Octavo (8 5/8 x 5 1/2 inches; 219 x 140 mm.). 28 pp. Folding hand colored etched frontispiece in two sections "Col. Patty-Pan" & "Sir John Sugar-Stick" dated "October 1809". Publisher's plain pink wrappers, front cover with the ink initials of George Cruikshank. Front wrapper and folding frontispiece detached. Frontispece a little stained and with some tears at fold, wrappers slightly chipped at extremities. Still a very good copy of a very rare and fragile Cruikshank item. "G. Cruikshank informed Reid that the whole of this plate, with the exception of the faces and hands, was his unaided work. The Widener copy is autographed: By Isaac Cruikshank, some parts by me, Geo. Cruikshank." (Cohn, p. 135). The work is a violent satire on Birch, who was a pastry-cook, in Cornhill, and Eames, a grocer, who were both volunteer officers "The folding frontispiece to The Jubilee, Alias Jew Belly, of 1809, contains two designs divided by a vertical line. 1. Alderman Birch, wearing uniform with cocked hat, gorget, boots, and apron, with a birch-rod in place of a sword, sells pies from a basket on legs, forming a portable stall. At his waist is a paper inscribed No Popery. A ragged, dwarfish, and deformed man (right), with a bundle of (?) matches, holds a coin as if about to spin it; he looks up at Birch, who cries Up & Win'em, asking Did you cry vomans [the reverse of a coin] vat your'e fond of. 2. Alderman Earner (not Eames) stands behind a counter, similarly dressed, but wearing shoes and wrinkled stockings, and with a stick of sugar-cane in place of a sword. He weighs out tea for an old woman in a red cloak (left) who says: a Quarter of an Ounce of Tea Dust directly. He answers: Don't hurry me woman I'm Sir John. On the floor on a pile of Waste Paper is an open book: Preachee and Floggee too.. Other papers are inscribed Wood Street. Behind him are large canisters and sugar-loaves." (British Museum). Exceptionally rare in the original wrappers. This copy appeared at Parke-Bernet Galleries, NY. [Property of Mrs. Leslie Chaundy] February 18/19th, 1942. (Patten I, 45.- Cohn, 457. .

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CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; GLASCOCK, William Nugent

Land Sharks and Sea Gulls

London: Richard Bentley, 1838. With Six Fine Engraved Plates by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. GLASCOCK, Captain [William Nugent]. Land Sharks and Sea Gulls. By Captain Glascock, R.N. In Three Volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches 197 x 121 mm.). [iv], [1-3], 4-307, [1, imprint]; [ii], [1-3], 4-309, [1, imprint]; [ii], [1-3], 4-329, [1, imprint] pp. Six engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Late nineteenth century three quarter olive green morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With the engraved bookplate of George Shaw on each front paste-down. S[pine of volume I with some light chipping at head and tail, some light staining to top blank margins at end of volume III. A good set. William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787-1847) was an Irish officer in the Royal Navy and a novelist. He saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and later in the years of relative peace. Glascock wrote a two-volume work, The Naval Sketch Book, or The Service Afloat and Ashore, published in 1826. This was followed by the three-volume Sailors and Saints, or Matrimonial Manœuvres in 1829, Tales of a Tar, with Characteristic Anecdotes in 1836, and the three-volume Land Sharks and Sea Gulls in 1838. He also wrote a two-volume work entitled Naval Service, or Officers' Manual, published in 1836. This useful manual for young officers passed through four editions in England. The last, published in 1859, had a short advertisement by Glascock's daughter, stating that "the work has been translated into French, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish, and adopted by the navies of those powers, as well as by that of the United States." Laughton remarked that the work was "of course, quite obsolete, though still interesting to the student of naval history and customs." Cohn 353; Wolff 2564; not in Sadleir. .

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Book number: 05637

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KELLIEGRAM BINDING; CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; JERROLD, Blanchard

Life of George Cruikshank, the

London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. In a Beautiful and Unusual Kelliegram Binding From the Library of Jakob Raskob - Builder of The Empire State Building [KELLIEGRAM Binding]. [CRUIKSHANK, George]. JERROLD, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs. A New Edition. With Eighty-Four Illustrations. London: Chatto and Windus, 1883. New edition. Octavo (7 1/4 x 4 1/4 in; 180 x 116 mm). xvi, 392 pp. Nineteen black and white plates with tissue guards, sixty-five black and white text illustrations. Bound by Kelly & Sons ca. 1900 in an unusual Kelliegram (thus signed) binding of full crimson crushed morocco with gilt-decorated frame to covers, and multi-colored morocco inlaid portrait to spine. One raised band. Turn-ins with gilt corner pieces. All edges gilt. Green silk end leaves. Original red cloth covers and spine bound in at rear. With the bookplate of John J. Raskob. The beautifully inlaid and colorful "Kelliegram bindings were one of many innovations of the English commercial binding firm of Kelly & Sons. The Kelly family had one of the longest connections in the history of the binding trade in London, having been founded in 1770 by John Kellie, as the name was then spelled. The binding firm was carried on by successive members of the family into the 1930s. William Henry Kelly significantly developed the company in the first half of the nineteenth century, followed by William Henry, Jr. Henry, and Hubert Kelly, who took control in 1892, taking the firm into the twentieth century..The development [during the 1880s] that came to be known as Kelliegram was one of the bindery's most notable, and the popularity continues today as demonstrated by the prices Kelliegram bindings command at auction and in the rare book trade" (Dooley, Kelliegram Bindings, Brynmawr Library). George Cruikshank was and remains the most celebrated caricaturist and book illustrator of the 19th century. The previous owner, the noted book collector John Jakob Raskob, was a financial executive and businessman for DuPont and General Motors, and the builder of the Empire State Building. .

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Keywords: CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator JERROLD, Blanchard Biography English History Nineteenth-Century Literature Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, George; JERROLD, Blanchard

Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs, the

London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. The Standard Authority For Over A Century Handsomely Bound by Rivière for Henry Sotheran [CRUIKSHANK, George]. JERROLD, Blanchard. The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs. With Numerous Illustrations. In Two Volumes. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. First edition. Two octavo volumes (7 3/8 x 5 inches; 187 x 127 mm). xvi, 284; viii, 280 pp. Eighty-four black and white illustrations including two frontispieces and twenty plates. Bound ca. 1882 by Rivière in full red morocco, spines with five raised bands lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt ruled board edges, decorative gilt turn-ins, marbled end-papers, top edge gilt, others uncut. Stamped in gilt on front turn-ins "H. Sotheran & Co. London". A fine set. "Jerrold's two volumes reigned for over a century as the standard authority" (Patten), until Patten's definitive two-volume biography, George Cruikshank's Life, Times, and Art (1996). Blanchard Jerrold (1826-1884), journalist and playwright, was acquainted with Cruikshank through his father, Douglas, a friend of Cruikshank and also a journalist and playwright. "In London Jerrold belonged to a set of young bohemian journalists, miscellaneous writers, and general bons viveurs, including George Augustus Sala, Peter Cunningham, and two of Dickens's younger brothers, that met to dine ‘three or four nights a week at certain favourite restaurants'". (G. A. Sala, Life and Adventures, 1, 1895, 441). .

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Book number: 04315

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CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; CAREY, David

Life in Paris

London: Printed for John Fairburn..Sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones [et al], 1822. Life, Wherever it Exists in the Shape of Human Character, Is Prolific of Events, and Full of the Materials of Amusement.." [CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator]. CAREY, David. Life in Paris. Comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours, of Dick Wildfire. of Corinthian Celebrity, and His Bang-Up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton; With the Whimsical Adventures of the Halibut Family; Including Sketches of a Variety of other eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis. London: Printed for John Fairburn.. Sold by Sherwood, Neely, and Jones [et al], 1822. First edition, early issue, bound without the half-title and the "To the Binder" leaf at rear. Octavo (8 5/16 x 5 inches; 211 x 127 mm). [iii]-xxiv, 489, [1, blank] pp. twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece. Twenty-two black and white woodcut text illustrations. Plates watermarked Whatman 1821 & 1822. Some of the plates very slightly soiled and some with minor expert marginal repairs, color plate facing page 304 very slightly just touching title. Overall an excellent copy of this uncommon Cruikshank title. Late twentieth century full maroon morocco, covers double-ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and turn-ins, marbled end-papers, all edges gilt. Although unsigned the binding is of very high quality. "One of the best imitations of Pierce Egan's Life in London, 1821.. which had plates by Robert and George Cruikshank, the plates in this work being by George only. The frontispiece or engraved title here is similar in conception to that of Life in London" (Abbey, Travel). Abbey, Travel, 112. Cohn 109. Tooley 129. .

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Book number: 04311

Catalogue: English Literature

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CRUIKSHANK, George; CRUIKSHANK, Robert

Lovers' Panorama, the

London: Hodgson & Co., 1835. Exceptionally Scarce Valentine Caricature by George and Robert Cruikshank Obadiah "I do confess I long have loved thee, And hope thou hast conceived the like for me;" Rachael "Yea, if thou wishest to take me to wife, I'll be thy partner thro' this weary life;" CRUIKSHANK, George & Robert. The Lovers' Panorama; or Cupid's Vagaries on St. Valentine's Day. London: Hodgson & Co. [1835]. Second Issue with changed title, otherwise identical. No date was assigned to either issue. Sixteenmo (5 3/4 x 3 3/8 inches; 146 x 86 mm.). 24 pp. Hand colored engraved vignette title-page and eleven hand colored vignettes in the text. Title-page and first two leaves slightly soiled at fore-margin, otherwise near fine. Nineteenth century burgundy paper wrappers, marbled endpapers over the original? plain wrappers. Housed in a fleece-lined, three-quarter red morocco clamshell case. According to Cohn the hand-colored engraving on the title-page is by George and Robert Cruikshank, the last two are by George Cruikshank, and the other nine are by Robert Cruikshank. OCLC locates only three copies of this issue in libraries and institutions worldwide: Yale University Library (CT. USA), McGill University Library (Montreal, Canada), and the British Library (London, UK). OCLC locates just two copies of the first issue: Trinity College Library (CT, USA), and Harvard University (MA, USA). The only copy of the first issue that we have been able to trace was the Salomons copy which appeared at auction in 1991. "This item is a second issue of "Cupid's Vagaries" (No. 216) with identical plates. It should also be noted that the price has been raised from sixpence to a shilling." (Cohn, p.151). It was first published [1822] as "Cupid's Vagaries, or the Lover's Panorama on St. Valentine's Day. (see also No. 510, "The Lovers' Panorama," which is the same work, another edition.). (Cohn, p. 72). We have never seen this title before - in either first or second issue.. and there was no example in the famous Cruikshank collection of Dr. Fluhmann. (Benoit Forgeot catalog 2009). Cohn, 510. .

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Book number: 04524

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Keywords: CRUIKSHANK, Robert Caricatures Cruikshankiana

CRUIKSHANK, George; PITMAN, Ambrose

Miseries of Musick-Master, the

London: T. Davison, 1815. With a Wonderful Hand Colored Frontispeice by George Cruikshank Depicting the Pains of Listening to a Young Child's Singing CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. PITMAN, Ambrose. The Miseries of Musick-Masters: Including the Art of Fingering Key'd Instruments, and Introductory Rudiments of the Practice of Harmonicks. A Serio Comick Didactick Poem. By Ambrose Pitman, Esq. London: printed by T. Davison, 1815. First edition. Large quarto (10 3/4 x 8 1/4 inches; 273 x 210 mm.). [iv], [1], 2-69, [1, blank], [1, errata], [1, imprint] pp. With a fine hand colored frontispiece by George Cruikshank (with see page 64 in faded ink on lower blank margin). Some scattered marginal foxing to text. Bound by Bayntun-Rivière ca. 1960 in three quarter black morocco over marbled boards, spine with five raised bands ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments. With the bookplate of Alan Fortunoff on front paste-down. The satirical hand colored frontispiece depicts a family gathered around a piano: a child sings, to the greatest pride of his mother and his sister, but the cat, the dog and the music teacher seem horrified: their painful looks say a lot about the talent of the toddler. "While Dicky Marrowbone did bellow, She, like Maestro di Capella* Beat time, as she thought, with her fan, As Dicky through his 'wild notes' ran; And when he finish'd, look'd around, Amaz'd that no applause was found." (page 64, lines 865-870). Rare: The last copy to appear at auction was at Sotheby's, London in 1979. OCLC locates just eight copies in libraries and institutions worldwide: Five in the US; two in the UK & one in Germany. "Ambrose Pitman (1763-1817) was a London musician and teacher. His The Miseries of Musick Masters was published in 1815. Sub-titled 'A Serio Comick Didactick Poem' it parodies the Augustan manner in almost a thousand lines, adding to the reproaches suggested by its title versified instruction on rudiments and fingering. Something of its style may be conveyed by a few opening couplets: What Miseries has Heaven designed To plague and punish human kind! Some more, some less, yet few as much As him who well the Lyre can touch, And from his merit, oft incurs The plaudits of the Theatres.. The book is well got up, with a hand-coloured frontispiece by George Cruikshank, and it must have been costly to produce. One is left wondering why Pitman should have gone to the expense of publishing it. For though later sections deal with musical rudiments, the reader being addressed is clearly not a child.. Pitman's book was meant to demonstrate not only his musical erudition but his attributes as a well-educated gentleman." (Bernarr Rainbow on Music). Cohn 653. .

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CRUIKSHANK, Robert, illustrator; TAYLOR, John

Monsieur Tonson

London: Alfred Miller, 1830. The Tale of a Gentleman Wag by 'The Water Poet' Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, Robert. TAYLOR, John. Monsieur Tonson. By John Taylor. Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. Second edition. London: Alfred Miller, 1830. Second edition with illustrations by Robert Cruikshank. Small octavo (6 1/4 x 3 15/16 inches; 159 x 100 mm.). Frontispiece of 'Tom King', [i-iii]-iv, [5]-19, [3, advertisements] pp. Eight wood-engraved illustrations by Robert Cruikshank including the frontispiece and a small cul-de-lampe at the end of the text. With the original yellow paper wrappers printed in black at front and rear. Bound ca. 1890 in full red calf, covers with double-rule gilt borders, smooth spine decoratively tooled in gilt, black morocco label lettered horizontally in gilt, decorative gilt turn-ins, red silk liners and endleaves, top edge gilt, others uncut. An excellent copy. "A second edition was issued in the same year (1830), but with the imprint "Alfred Miller," and in yellow paper wrappers." (Cohn). Originally published in 1808, this astonishing poem, tells of how a Mr Tom King, a gentleman wag, knocks at the door of a Frenchman [Monsieur Bellouvrage]. The man answers the door courteously to find that King wants to know if a Mr Thompson lives there. No 'Monsieur Tonson' lives there replies the Frenchman. But King is back next night, and the following four nights after that, making the same enquiry, and bringing friends to share the 'joke' with. Though scrupulously polite at first, the little Frenchman becomes increasingly angry until he attempt, but fails, to throw a pail of water on King's head. At last, the Frenchman and his wife are forced to move out. King then goes abroad for some years. When he returns, he repeats his trick. Robert Cruikshank, sometimes known as Isaac Robert Cruikshank (1789-1856) was a caricaturist, illustrator and portrait miniaturist. He was born in Middlesex, where he and his brother George attended school in Edgware. Both brothers were interested in the theatre, and performed in dramas they had written themselves with their friend Edmund Kean. Isaac joined the Loyal North Britons, a volunteer military unit, rising to the rank of sergeant when the volunteers turned out in 1803. During adolescence both brothers attended boxing and fencing matches, cock-fights, and numerous tavern contests. Cruikshank gained a midshipman's commission in the East India Company's ship Perseverance. Midshipman Cruikshank did not get on with his captain, and returning on his maiden voyage he was deliberately left behind on St. Helena. He arrived back in London in 1806 and shocked his family who were in mourning having been told that he was dead. In the late 1820s Robert Cruikshank illustrated a number of notable books that were often sequels to previous successes to which he and his brother George had contributed. For example, George Cruikshank illustrated Points of Humour and Robert Cruikshank illustrated Points of Misery. The brothers collaborated on a series of 'London Characters' in 1827. Amongst his other illustrations are some notable ones for Miguel de Cervantes' classic novel, Don Quixote de la Mancha. John Taylor (1578-1653) was an English poet who dubbed himself "The Water Poet". He achieved notoriety by a series of eccentric journeys: for example, he traveled from London to Queenborough in a paper boat with two stockfish tied to canes for oars, described in "The Praise of Hemp-Seed". Cohn, 783 (second edition). .

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CRUIKSHANK, George; MERLE, William Henry

Odds and Ends in Prose and Verse

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. A collection of poems and short stories, full of humor Thirteen illustrations by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MERLE, William Henry. Odds and Ends. In Prose and Verse. By William Henry Merle, Esq. Illustrated by George Cruikshank from designs by the author. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. First edition. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 x 121 mm.). [viii], [1-3], 4-6, 9-146, [2] pp. Twelve woodcut and one etched illustration including seven full-page. Bound without the half-title and 12 pages of advertisements. Three quarter dark green morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt, spine with five raised bands decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. Joints cracked but holding. In one of the vignettes, we see a cat, looking melancholy, refusing the dish offered to her by her mistress; around her neck hangs a medallion with the portrait of a pig and, in front of her, an open book reads: Bacon's works.. The image illustrates a poem recounting The Loves of a Pig and a Cat. William Henry Merle (1791-1878) alias Bird. Author, Journalist and amateur draughtsman, he supplied sketches for prints to George Cruikshank. He signed his drawings with the pseudonym "A Bird.

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CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator; MERLE, William Henry

Odds and Ends. In Prose and Verse

London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. A collection of poems and short stories, full of humor Thirteen illustrations by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MERLE, William Henry. Odds and Ends. In Prose and Verse. By William Henry Merle, Esq. Illustrated by George Cruikshank from designs by the author. London: Printed for Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green, 1831. First edition. Small octavo (7 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches; 194 x 121 mm.). [viii], [1-3], 4-6, 9-146, [2] pp. Twelve woodcut and one etched illustration including seven full-page. Bound without the half-title and 12 pages of advertisements. Publisher's dark green pebbled cloth, spine with printed paper label. A very good copy from the celebrated library of Estelle Doheny with her oval bookplate on front paste-down. In one of the vignettes, we see a cat, looking melancholy, refusing the dish offered to her by her mistress; around her neck hangs a medallion with the portrait of a pig and, in front of her, an open book reads: Bacon's works.. The image illustrates a poem recounting The Loves of a Pig and a Cat. William Henry Merle (1791-1878) alias Bird. Author, Journalist and amateur draughtsman, he supplied sketches for prints to George Cruikshank. He signed his drawings with the pseudonym "A Bird.

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Book number: 05554

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Keywords: MERLE, William Henry Poetry Cruikshankiana