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Skinner AuctionsMarlborough MA
April 9, 2015 10:00 AMCalender
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Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) Eighteen Volumes.

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Auction: Discovery - 2799MLocation: MarlboroughDate / Time: April 09, 2015 10:00AM

Description:

Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) Eighteen Volumes.
Including: Tales of Humour, Gallantry, & Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian, London: Baldwyn, 1824, full leather; Martin's Vagaries, London: Baily, 1843, contemporary red shagreen-textured cloth; Bombastes Furioso, London: Thomas, 1837, disbound; The Life of Mansie Wauch, Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1839, contemporary cloth, decased; Paris's Philosophy in Sport Made Science in Earnest, London: Murray, 1861, half calf; John Taylor's Monsieur Tonson, London: Marsh & Miller, 1830, illustrated by Robert Cruikshank, half leather, boards detached; Bowring's Minor Morals, London: Whittaker, 1835, parts two and three only, half leather, boards detached; fourteen issues of the Comic Almanack bound in seven, viz., 1835-1844 inclusive, and 1850-1853, uniform half morocco, some boards and spines detached, some missing; Hans of Iceland, London: Robins, 1825, full calf, boards detached; Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray, London: Bohn, 1851, half leather, front board detached; and Cruikshank's Water Colors, London: Balck, 1903, publisher's cloth, chipped, spotting to contents. (18)
Estimate $200-300


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Keywords

London, Robert Cruikshank, Paris, John Taylor, Whittaker, Iceland, James Gillray