[Rarebooks] fa: BRITISH SATIRE 1785-1840 - 5 vols. - HONE Cruikshank BYRON Shelley DELLA CRUSCANS &c.

[ArCh]

Listed now, auction ending MONDAY, Monday, May 6. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

http://tinyurl.com/y5h7lppd

Thanks again,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


Nicholas Mason, David Walker, Benjamin Colbert, John Strachan, Jane Moore, eds.: British Satire 1785-1840. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003. First edition thus. Five volumes (complete), 8vo (24 cm), hardcovers w/o dustjackets as issued. Two volumes with light evidence of wear, small spot of soiling to the fore-edge of the text block of vol. I, else Near Fine or better: clean and sound, firmly bound.

Compendious, scholarly collection of British satiric works, each with an introduction and notes, some illustrated and/or printed in facsimile. Includes works by William Hone, George Cruikshank, James Gillray, Robert Burns, James Wolcot ("Peter Pindar"), Elizabeth Hands, Jane Taylor, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Lord Byron, John Keats, Thomas Love Peacock, William Gifford, Robert Seymour, a young Charles Dickens, and many more. Volume. 1: Collected Satires I: Shorter Satires; Volume 2: Collected Satires II: Extracts from Longer Satires; Volume 3: Collected Satires III: Complete Longer Satires; Volume 4: Gifford and the Della Cruscans; Volume 5: The Satires of Thomas Moore.