My Sketch Book
by Cruikshank, George
London: Charles Tilt, 1836. First edition. Orig. illustrated wrappers. Very good housed in firm, later green cloth box lettered in gilt (spine and front cover) showing some wear to extremities. 22 x 31 cm, 37 hand-colored etched plates, including etched title in No. 1., in the nine original parts. ABBEY LIFE 275. COHN 181. Notes the first six... Read More
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The Bachelor's Own Book; Or, The Progress of Mr. Lambkin, (GENT.), In The Pursuit of Pleasure and Amusement, etc..
by Cruikshank, George
Glasgow: David Bryce & Son, 1880. Second edition. Hardcover. Orig. illustrated stiff wrappers, cloth spine. Very good. 47 pp. 20 x 14 cm, twenty-four plates designed and etched by George Cruikshank. COHN 192 [noting the first edition published London, 1844]. This edition published in the 1880's, and printed from the original steel plates. Front cover stains.
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Songs, Naval And National, Of The Late Charles Dibdin; With A Memoir And Addenda
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
London: John Murray, 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Three quarter navy calf and marbled boards. Very good. 336 pages. 16.5 x 11 cm. 12 etchings by Cruikshank, including frontispiece, all with tissue guards. COHN 231. "No list of plates. List of Subscribers and Patrons, a few of whom took 1000 copies, the Admiralty and Earl of Minto took 500... Read More
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The Vicar Of Wakefield A Tale By Oliver Goldsmith, M.D. & The Adventures Of Launcelot Greaves By Tobias, M.D. Smollett
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1832. Hardcover. Watered silk covers, modern cloth reback with original spine label laid down. Very good. 168, 243 pages. 18 x 11 cm. Four etchings by Cruikshank and a portrait of Goldsmith by Freeman. COHN 708. Another in the series, "Roscoe's Novelist's Library." Bookplate, clean copy.
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The Adventures of Roderick Random. By T. Smollett, M.D.
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
London: James Cochrane and Co, 1831. Hardcover. Three quarter green morocco, marbled boards, matching marbled endpapers. Teg. Very good. 496 pages. 17 x 11 cm. Five signed etchings by Cruikshank. List of plates. Vol. 2 of Roscoe's Novelist's Library of a total of 19 volumes in the series. COHN 703. Fresh, bright copy, bookplate, raised bands, spine panels... Read More
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The Comic Almanack: An Ephemeris In Jest And Earnest Containing "All Things Fitting For Such A Work." By Ricdum Funnidos, Gent. 1835-1853
by Cruikshank, George
London: Charles Tilt / Tilt & Bogue / David Bogue, 1853. First edition. Hardcover. Housed in custom slotted board box with lid. Very good. Cruikshank, George. In the original parts. 17 x 11 cm., and 14 x 9 cm (1848-1849). 195 etched plates by Cruikshank, plus five fold-out plates, four in color. Thackeray contributed to the 1839-1840 issues.... Read More
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Greenwich Hospital, A Series Of Naval Sketches, Descriptive of The Life Of A Man-Of-War's Man. By An Old Sailor (Matthew Henry Barker)
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
London: James Robbins, 1826. First edition. Hardcover. 19th century three quarter black morocco, marbled boards with matching endpapers. Teg. Very good. 200 pages. 27 1/2 x 22 cm. Twelve hand-colored plates with additional 12 uncolored plates designed and engraved by Cruikshank, and sixteen woodcuts in the text. One page ALS dated January 6th 1846 signed (Geo Cruikshank) bound... Read More
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Cruikshank's Water Colours With Introduction By Joseph Grego
by Cruikshank, George
London: A&C Black, 1903. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher's brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt. Very good. Cruikshank, George. 326 pages. 23 x 17 cm. 68 full page color plates with lettered tissue guards. Images of Oliver Twist, The Miser's Daughter, and History of The Irish Rebellion. Interior contents clean. Small nick to backstrip head.
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Three Courses and a Dessert
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
London: Vizetelly, Branston & Co, 1830. Second edition. Hardcover. Half green morocco and boards. Very good. 432 pages. Fifty-one woodcuts, of which eight are full-page. COHN 144. From the late 1820's through the 1830's, Cruikshank worked at a feverish pace with both the graver and the needle. In many of his designs during these years wood-engraving was substituted... Read More
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The Humourist A Collection Of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes Epigrams, &c
by Cruikshank, George
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. 20th century three quarter red morocco and red cloth. Teg. Near fine. 4 vols. 220, 228, 224, 226 pages. 19.5 x 15 cm. Limited edition, copy 60 of 260. Forty hand colored etchings, including additional engraved half-titles with vignettes in each volume. A series of comic tales originally published in... Read More
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The Cruikshankian Momus "Let Momus Rule The Day" Pictorial Broadside and Humorous Song-Headings
by Cruikshank, George et al.
London: John C. Nimmo, 1892. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. navy cloth. Teg. Very good. 136 pages in text. 28 x 18 cm. Fifty-two comic designs of the the three Cruikshanks [Elder Isaac, Robert and George] colored by hand after the originals. Limited edition, copy 376 of 520 . Crisp, clean signed presentation copy in a florid hand by... Read More
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Pencil & Ink Drawing
by Cruikshank, George
Np: Np, Nd. Paper. Near fine. 26 x 13 cm. Image area of the three female figures laid-down on total paper size 31 x 24 cm. -- mounted on heavy sheet, 41 x 28.5.
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Autograph Note. Unsigned
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
Np: Np, Nd. 1p, 3 3/4 x 4 1/2 inches. To Dr. Roberts, Wednesday [n.y.] -- "My dear Dr. Roberts. I made an engagement yesterday, for tomorrow evening which I fear I cannot put off." Darkly penned, with four drawings by Cruikshank with the same pen at bottom margin. Slightly irregular left edge where separated from integral leaf; else... Read More
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A Design for a Scene in the Intended new Melo Drama intitled Forty Thieves
by Cruikshank, Isaac
London: John Hays, 1805. Wraps. Very good. Cruikshank, Isaac. 30 x 48 cm. Hand colored etching. On the left. Fox stands at his tavern-door, which is at r. angles to the front of the house where a large open sash-window faces the spectator. Below the window is a large inscription: 'C. J. F & Co. Dealers Rectifiers and... Read More
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Sherry's Plan of Economy or the Speaker Traveling in Stile
by Cruikshank, Isaac
London: S.W. Fores, 1803. Wraps. Very good. Cruikshank, Isaac. 20.5 x 35.5 cm. Hand colored etching. In a clumsy two-wheeled chaise drawn by a donkey (left to right) the Speaker sits holding a huge umbrella over himself and his mace-bearer, who sits on the box-seat driving, the mace against his shoulder. On the corner of a wall (left)... Read More
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Pierce Egan's Finish To The Adventures of Tom, Jerry, And Logic, In Their Pursuits Through Life In And Out Of London
by Cruikshank, Robert (Illustrator)
London: James Camden Hotten, 1869. Hardcover. Three quarter red morocco and matching cloth. Teg. Fine. 321 pages. 26.5 x 17.5 cm. 36 hand-colored plates, frontispiece with hand-colored vignettes. The last of the Tom, Jerry and Logic adventures -- Corinthian Tom dies in a riding misadventure, but Jerry weds a fine wife and settles into life as an esteemed... Read More
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Monsieur Tonson by John Taylor
by Cruikshank, Robert
London: Marsh and Miller, 1830. First edition. Wraps. Orig. pink wrappers printed in black. Near fine. 19 pages. 16.5 x 10.5 cm. COHN 783. "Head of King and six woodcuts by R. Cruikshank, in which he was helped by George, a copy having come under my notice, with the inscription: `These (illustrations) were done by my brother, but... Read More
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The Devil's Walk; A Poem by S.T. Coleridge Esq. And Robert Southey, Esq. LL.D &c; Edited With A Biographical Memoir And Notes, By H.W. Montagu, Author Of Montmorency Poems, &c. &c. &c......Illustrated with Beautiful Engravings on Wood by Bonner and Slader after the Designs of R. Cruikshank
by Cruikshank, Robert (Illustrator)
London: Alfred Miller, 1830. Second edition. leather_bound. 20th century full navy calf. Aeg. Near fine in fine custom, cloth backed and marbled slipcase. 33 pages. 17 x 10 1/2 cm. The second and colored edition with a double suite: eight hand-colored and plain wood engravings by Robert Cruikshank, bound by Riviere & Son. One page of adverts at... Read More
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Old Miscellany Days; A Selections Of Stories From Bentley's Miscellany. By Various Authors
by Cruikshank, George (Illustrator)
London: Richard Bentley, 1885. Hardcover. Orig. publisher brown cloth decorated and lettered in gilt. Very good. 350 (2) pages. 25.5 x 17 cm. 33 illustrations with tissue guards from the original etchings on steel representing some of Cruikshank's contributions to this series, or the first fourteen volumes: January 1837 to December 1843, out of a total of 124... Read More
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Two Men; Walter Lewis And Stanley Morison At Cambridge
by Crutchley, Brooke
Cambridge: Printed For His Friends By The University Printer, 1968. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. quarter red cloth and decorated boards. Fine in fine in near fine slipcase. 48 pages. 25.5 x 16.5 cm. Limited edition, one of 500. Half title, title page printed in red and black, decorative initial, 14 illustrations, some in color, 6 printing specimens tipped... Read More
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Christmas Tree
by Cummings, E.E.
New York: American Book Bindery, Inc, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Quarter red cloth and green boards with silver stripe lettered in red. Very good in clear mylar dust wrapper. Very good. Cummings, E.E. Five double paged leaves. 20 x 13.5 cm. Frontispiece printed in red and green running length-wise with a silver iridescent accompaniment. Typography by S.A. Jacobs.... Read More
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Modern American Architecture. Designs and Plans for Villas, Farm-Houses, Cottages, City Residences, Churches, School-Houses, &c. &c. Containing Fifty-Five Original Plates Giving in Detail Plans and Illustrations Suited to All Parts of the Country
by Cummings, M.F. & C.C. Miller
New York: Published By The Authors (A.J. Bicknell, General Agent), 1868. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. black cloth decorated in blind, front cover gilt lettered. Very good. 19 text pages. Folio, 36 x 27.5 cm. Fifty-four lithograph plates. Presents a wide variety of dwellings as well as designs for row houses, tenements, fire and school houses and commercial buildings,... Read More
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A Booke Of Christmas Carols, Illuminated from Ancient Manuscripts In the British Museum
by London. Joseph Cundall
London: Joseph Cundall, 1845. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. publisher decorated boards, front cover paper label. Aeg. Very good. 32 pages. 18.5 x 13 cm. First edition of the first of Joseph Cundall's illuminated gift books, with decoration by John Brandard printed in chromolithography by Hanhart. Purportedly the first Christmas book printed in chromolithography. The borders in the book... Read More
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Excavations at Portchester Castle Volume III: Medieval, the Outer Bailey and its Defences
by Cunliffe, Barry
London: Thames and Hudson, 1977. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. maroon cloth. Fine in chipped dust wrapper. 253 pp. 132 text figures and forty-five plates with many of the former large fold-outs. Bibliographies. Index. Reports of the Research Committee of the Society of Antiquaries of London No. XXXIV. The author describes the defences and buildings of the outer bailey... Read More
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Letters Joseph Conrad To Richard Curle; Edited With An Introduction And Notes by R.C.
by Curtle, Richard (Editor)
New York: Crosby Gaige, 1928. First edition. Hardcover. Orig. cream cloth spine and marbled boards. Teg. Very good. 151 pages. 22 x 15 cm. Limited edition, one of 850 copies. Typography by Bruce Rogers, printed by William Edwin Rudge. Three corners rubbed, clean and fresh copy.
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