The Life of George Cruikshank. Special copy enlarged to four volumes and illustrated with hundreds of additional engravings, portraits, autographs, etc., etc., etc
Cruikshank, George. Jerrold, Blanchard
London. (Chatto and Windus). 1880 but 1882
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George Jerrold's The Life of George Cruikshank, the enlarged and expanded edition, with a large amount of additional material.
This copy features approximately 1,052 extra illustrations, including letters, contemporary caricatures, extracts from Cruikshank's oeuvre and other material: this work was issued as a hommage 4 years after Cruikshank's death in 1878.
The extra material include plates with additional colouring by hand, as well as plates printed in colour and monochrome and on special paper from the whole of Cruikshank's oeuvre, from his earliest caricatures through his book illustrations, especially Dickens, to his obsession with Temperance, including such series as Monstrostities (fashion), Oliver Twist, hunting stories, The Bottle, Drunkard's Children and many others; several prints are signed by Cruikshank in pencil.
Also there are many plates of London views and haunts and portraits of the Royal family, leading celebrities, play bill and posters for theatre productions together with many prints by other caricaturists including Rowlandson, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Robert Cruikshank and others.
There are 17 manuscript and signed items including an autograph letter by George Cruikshank,Ruskin, Jerrold, Crowquil, and others including a letter from Guy Fawkes (attributed).
This copy features approximately 1,052 extra illustrations, including letters, contemporary caricatures, extracts from Cruikshank's oeuvre and other material: this work was issued as a hommage 4 years after Cruikshank's death in 1878.
The extra material include plates with additional colouring by hand, as well as plates printed in colour and monochrome and on special paper from the whole of Cruikshank's oeuvre, from his earliest caricatures through his book illustrations, especially Dickens, to his obsession with Temperance, including such series as Monstrostities (fashion), Oliver Twist, hunting stories, The Bottle, Drunkard's Children and many others; several prints are signed by Cruikshank in pencil.
Also there are many plates of London views and haunts and portraits of the Royal family, leading celebrities, play bill and posters for theatre productions together with many prints by other caricaturists including Rowlandson, Isaac Cruikshank, James Gillray, Robert Cruikshank and others.
There are 17 manuscript and signed items including an autograph letter by George Cruikshank,Ruskin, Jerrold, Crowquil, and others including a letter from Guy Fawkes (attributed).
4 vols. Folio. (426 x 295 mm). Contemporary (or early 20th century) full red crushed morocco by the Hampstead Bindery with their signature gilt, banded spines with gilt title in six compartments, marbled endpapers, a.e.g.
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