[Rarebooks] fa: CRUIKSHANK (George & Robert) - ALFRED CROWQUILL (1st Book)

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, along with a colorful assortment of vintage satirical  
prints and illustrated works, auctions ending Sunday, April 17. More  
details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching under  
the seller name arch_in_la.

http://shop.ebay.com/arch_in_la/m.html?_trksid=p4340.l2562

Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
L.A.

Robert Cruikshank: A Dandy Shoe maker in a Fright or the effects of  
Tight Lacing. London: Thomas Tegg, 1818. Hand-colored engraving; plate  
mark size: 13 3/4 x 10 in (35 x 25 cm); sheet size: 14 1/2 x 10 1/4 in  
(37 x 25.5 cm). BM Satires 13066. Cruikshank mocks the effeminacy of  
contemporary men's fashion as well as getting in a jab at the social  
pretensions of the working class. As a dandified shoemaker attends to  
a very décolletée lady, he busts his stays, leading to his  
mortification and the lady's amusement: "Susan what is the Creature  
about? he's taking liberties with me!" To which the maid replies, "Why  
Madam he has got a pair of Ladies Stays on." Upper right margin with  
the printed number 321; trimmed to the plate mark at the bottom; a few  
faint dimples to the margins, but very clean, bright and fresh.

George Cruikshank: Georgey à la Dandy. Sketch'd by an Amateur — etched  
by G. Ck. London: G. Humphrey, 1820. Hand-colored engraving; plate  
size 20 x 15.5 cm (8 x 10 in), sheet size 23.5 x 28.5 cm (9.25 x 11.25  
in). First state. Cohn 1157; BM 14067. An unflattering caricature of  
the notorious dandy Sir George Wombwell (1769-1846) looking knock- 
kneed and wall-eyed, with a similarly attired scarecrow looming in the  
background (and pulling off the look rather better). Inked number "76"  
in top margin and notation "Sir[?] George Wombwell" in bottom margin;  
a touch of soiling and dimpling to the  margins, a small stain at the  
mid-left; otherwise clean and bright.

George Cruikshank: Ancient Military Dandies of 1450 - Sketch'd by  
permission from the Originals in the Grand Armory at the Gothic Hall  
Pall-Mall. Modern Military Dandies - of 1819 - Sketch'd without  
permission from the Life. London: Thos. McLean, 1835. Engraving, hand- 
colored (possibly later), heightened with gum arabic; plate mark  
measures 14 1/4 x 10 1/4 in. Two dandified, pigeon-chested soldiers (a  
Life Guards officer and a Lancer officer) admire their taller and more  
stalwart-looking forebears in this classic Cruikshank image. Some  
pinholes and light creasing at the margins.

[Charles Robert Forrester & Alfred Henry Forrester:] Absurdities: In  
Prose and Verse. Written and Illustrated by A. Crowquill. London:  
Thomas Hurst and Co., 1827. FIRST EDITION. Full forest green morocco  
binding by Root & Son with gilt-stamped borders and spine titles; 8vo;  
132 pp.; half-title; 13 hand-colored plates. First edition of the  
first book by "Alfred Crowquill," a pseudonym used here by both  
Forrester brothers and later by Alfred Henry Forrester alone. A  
collection of whimsical stories, vignettes and verses featuring a  
plethora of puns, both clever and painful. The words are primarily by  
Charles Robert, while the illustrations are by Alfred Henry. Binding  
with a few small unobtrusive scratches, wear to the upper corners,  
sunning to the spine and top 5/8" of the front cover; some offsetting  
to the text leaves from the plates, occasional spotting throughout  
(most prominently on the blank endpapers); otherwise clean and sound.  
A solid copy in a handsome binding.