[Rarebooks] fa: THACKERAY: ON THE GENIUS OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK - Extra-Illustrated/Fine Binding

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Auction ending Sunday, September 25. Images and more details can be found at the URL below or by searching for the seller name arch_in_la. 

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Many thanks,
Ardwight Chamberlain
Ann Arbor, MI, USA


William Makepeace Thackeray: Thackeray and Cruikshank : On the Genius of George Cruikshank. London: George Redway, 1884. Tall 8vo (23 cm) bound in full burgundy morocco by Morrell, gilt-tooled boards, spine and turn-ins, top page edges gilt; [4], xvi, 60, [6] pp.; original printed wraps bound in.

EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED by the insertion of ca. 48 extra engravings, some hand-colored, and with one of Cruikshank's early satirical efforts, a 34-page pamphlet, The Political "A, Apple-Pie" (1820), also bound in. Binding with a hint of sunning to the spine and top edge, light toning to the contents, armorial bookplate of A. Brandon Taylor, else very clean and sound, firmly and elegantly bound. A handsome copy.