[Rarebooks] F/S Cruikshank Illustrations to Gilpin In Wrappers 1828

[Garry Austin]

We offer the following for your consideration postpaid in the US and net to all @$200

Cruikshank, George. Six Illustrations To Cowper’s Diverting History Of John Gilpin.Proofs on India paper. Engraved on wood by Thompson, Branston, Wright, Slader, and White. London: Charles Tilt. 1828. Octavo. (236 x 164 mm). Original publisher's printed stitched paper wrappers. Rear wrapper has list of “ oohs Just Published By Charles Tilt. Six monochrome wood engravings by George Cruikshank, each printed recto only on India paper. Complete with minor edge wear to wrappers, front wrapper detached, remaining strings holding plates and rear wrapper.


(Sheet size: 212 x 158 mm). The rare issue of Cruikshank's plates, proofs on India paper, in the original wrappers.'The illustrations (India proofs) were also issued unmounted separately without text, in brown paper printed wrappers, in royal octavo.' (Cohn).[Cohn 169].

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