Shadows, Second Series, W. Kent, [1857], hand-coloured pictorial title-page and thirty-seven hand-coloured engraved plates of caricatures, including frontispiece, each figure arranged to project a humourous shadow (e.g. 'A slave', 'Creeping like a Snail', 'The Pot calling the Kettle black', 'Tempus Fugit', 'The fretful Porcupine', 'Blowing his own trumpet'), scattered spotting, and several plates detached, contemporary ownership name on front free endpaper, original printed boards, rubbed and soiled, rebacked and corners showing, 8vo Provenance: From the library of Percy H. Muir. Rare coloured copy. (1)
Shadows, Second Series, W. Kent, [1857], hand-coloured pictorial title-page and thirty-seven hand-coloured engraved plates of caricatures, including frontispiece, each figure arranged to project a humourous shadow (e.g. 'A slave', 'Creeping like a Snail', 'The Pot calling the Kettle black', 'Tempus Fugit', 'The fretful Porcupine', 'Blowing his own trumpet'), scattered spotting, and several plates detached, contemporary ownership name on front free endpaper, original printed boards, rubbed and soiled, rebacked and corners showing, 8vo Provenance: From the library of Percy H. Muir. Rare coloured copy. (1)
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