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(CRUIKSHANK, ROBERT.) Westmacott, Charles Molloy.
The English Spy.
2
volumes. 72 hand-colored aquatint plates, including 67 by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by
Rowlandson, and one each by Wageman and Brightly; additional woodcuts in the text.
With advertisement leaf at end of volume 1.Tall 8vo, original printed boards, darkened and
spines creased, overall rubbing heaviest to joints with light exposure, joints cracked and
partially detached on volume 2, scattered surface stains; some scattered foxing with offset-
ting from plates to facing pages but plates generally clean; preserved in 2 custom morocco
gilt pull-off cases with silk chemises, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.
London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826
[1,000/1,500]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE
.
SCARCE IN ORIGINAL BOARDS
.
With the rare ad leaf present
in vol. 1 (though not in vol. 2), and the plate facing page 389 of Volume 1 dated 1284 rather
than 1824, and with the rare Rowlandson plate facing page 411 (“R.A.’s of Genius...”)
which is often lacking.Abbey, 325; Prideaux pp. 310, 328;Tooley 504.
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CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE and
ISAAC (illustrators). Egan, Pierce.
Life in
London.
36 hand-colored aquatint plates,
3 folding plates of sheet music, and wood
engravings in text by Isaac & George
Cruikshank. 8vo, full red straight-grain
morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments,
all edges and turn-ins gilt, by Zaehnsdorf,
green silk endleaves, offsetting to facing
blanks from plates, sheet music and occa-
sional leaves a bit browned; housed in
silk-lined folding case, old dampstains.
London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely,
and Jones, 1821
[1,200/1,800]
FIRST EDITION
,
FIRST ISSUE IN BOOK
FORM
:
without footnote on p. 9; first sheet of
music unnumbered; “good-bies” on p. 376; and
with the scarce “To the Subscribers” leaf at the
end.Abbey Life 281;Tooley 196; Cohn 262.
