[COLOR PLATE - ROWLANDSON, CRUIKSHANK, etc.] Group of twenty titles, most finely bound, including two in boards. [London: various publishers, most early 19th century]. 20 titles in 21 volumes, most in full or three-quarters contemporary or modern morocco gilt. Sizes vary, largest 10 x 6 1/4 inches (25.5. x 15.5 cm); each with hand-colored engraved plates. Some wear to joints or slight fading to spines, generally clean within, not fully collated and sold as is. Includes: Gradus ad Cantabrigiam...by A Brace of Cantabs, 1824, first edition, with 6 hand-colored plates including the "Quite Unexpected" plate; [ROWLANDSON, THOMAS]. Doctor Syntax in Paris or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, 1820, first edition in original boards, 16 hand-colored aquatint plates; [LEECH, JOHN] - A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT. The Comic History of England, 1847-48, two volumes, first edition, three-quarters mottled calf gilt, 20 hand-colored plates; [ROWLANDSON, THOMAS]. The Dance of Life, 1817, first edition, 26 hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece and vignette title page; and others. 21 volumes in all. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
[COLOR PLATE - ROWLANDSON, CRUIKSHANK, etc.] Group of twenty titles, most finely bound, including two in boards. [London: various publishers, most early 19th century]. 20 titles in 21 volumes, most in full or three-quarters contemporary or modern morocco gilt. Sizes vary, largest 10 x 6 1/4 inches (25.5. x 15.5 cm); each with hand-colored engraved plates. Some wear to joints or slight fading to spines, generally clean within, not fully collated and sold as is. Includes: Gradus ad Cantabrigiam...by A Brace of Cantabs, 1824, first edition, with 6 hand-colored plates including the "Quite Unexpected" plate; [ROWLANDSON, THOMAS]. Doctor Syntax in Paris or a Tour in Search of the Grotesque, 1820, first edition in original boards, 16 hand-colored aquatint plates; [LEECH, JOHN] - A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOTT. The Comic History of England, 1847-48, two volumes, first edition, three-quarters mottled calf gilt, 20 hand-colored plates; [ROWLANDSON, THOMAS]. The Dance of Life, 1817, first edition, 26 hand-colored aquatint plates including frontispiece and vignette title page; and others. 21 volumes in all. C Estate of Arnold 'Jake' Johnson
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