The Humourist. A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Epigrams, Bon Mots, etc.

by George Cruikshank

$1,250 · Offered by John Windle Antiquarian

First edition

London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820. 4 vols, 8vo. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. Full brick red morocco, backstrips lightly sunned, scattered foxing. Bookplates of Albert Ramsay-Cohn and of one other; early ownership inscription of Adam Paterson on front blank in each vol. Very good. § First edition with second issue of Vol. 1 title page with Vol.1 and dated 1819 but with all other

• Binding: Leather

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