[Rarebooks] FS: "The Cruikshankian Momus" with 52 hand-colored plates. London: 1892.

[Kenneth Karmiole]

(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE) THE CRUIKSHANKIAN MOMUS "Let Momus Rule the Day" Pictorial Broadsides and Humerous Song-Headings. Fifty-Two Comic Designs to Popular Ballads by the Three Cruikshanks, The Elder Robert, Robert, and the Great George. Coloured by Hand (After the Originals). London: John C. Nimmo. 1892. Tall 8vo. viii,136pp. Plus 52 inserted hand-colored plates. With numerous black & white text illustrations. Edition limited to 520 numbered copies. Orig. blue cloth, gilt stamped. Spine extremities a bit frayed, but overall very good. With the bookplate of Sir William Agnew (1825-1910) with his ink signature. Agnew was an English politician and art dealer, the owner of Thomas Agnew & Sons. Housed in a fine blue cloth open end slipcase.    $150.00 (trade discount allowed)

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