Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray, comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third

by Thomas Wright, R H. Evans

$375 · Offered by Donald A. Heald Rare Books

First edition

Half red morocco with marbled paper boards, spine with raised bands forming six compartments, elaborately gilt, black morocco lettering piece, all edges gilt, marbled endpapers The first edition of the descriptive catalogue accompanying Bohn's collected edition of James Gillray's caricatures, preserving a detailed mid-nineteenth-century reading of Georgian political and social satire. This first edition catalogues 582 of Gillray's prints, arranged in two principal

• Binding: Leather

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