The Comic Almanack, An Ephemeris in Jest and Earnest, Containing Merry Tales, Humorous Poetry, Quips, and Oddities

by George Cruikshank

$350 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

London: Chatto and Windus, Piccadilly, n.d. 4 vols. Half morocco and blue cloth boards, ruled in gilt, backstrips gilt. Extremities a little rubbed, upper hinges tender, but in general a well preserved set. § A later printing of the complete Comic Almanack, first issued in nineteen annual parts between 1835 and 1853. See Cohen 184. The most important of a number of comic almanacks which from the late Regency period parodied and subverted the popular

• Binding: Leather

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