[Rarebooks] fa: JOHN WIGHT & GEORGE CRUIKSHANK - MORE MORNINGS AT BOW STREET 1827 - Tout Binding

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

Listed now, auction ending Sunday, September 20. More details and images can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la.

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Thomas Wight; George Cruikshank, illus.: More Mornings at Bow Street. A New Collection of Humorous and Entertaining Reports. London: James Robins and Co., 1827. FIRST EDITION; 8vo (20.25 cm), in full morocco binding by Tout, the covers, spine and turn-ins elaborately tooled in gilt, decorative cloth endpapers, top page edges gilt; xvi, 260 pp.; with 9 plates and numerous woodcut vignettes (complete); with the half-title but without the publisher's adverts. Cohn 845.

The lighter side of the police blotter, a sequel to Wight and Cruikshank's enormously popular Mornings at Bow Street (1824). Binding with wear to the bottom fore-corners, light sunning to the top and bottom of the front board, front joint starting to crack at the extremities but secure; contents toned, occasional spots and light foxing. Front paste-down with the engraved bookplate of F. E. Dinshaw over the remnant of a previous bookplate. This is presumably Framroze  Edulji Dinshaw, (d. 1936), Indian tycoon and philanthropist, book collector, pioneer in the development of the Indian film industry.