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Auction archive: Lot number 27

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878) The Humourist: A Collection o...

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,125
Auction archive: Lot number 27

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878) The Humourist: A Collection o...

Estimate
US$1,000 - US$1,500
Price realised:
US$1,125
Beschreibung:

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales . London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820.
CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales . London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820. 4 volumes, small 8 o (172 x 102 mm.). Hand-colored etched additional titles and 36 plates by Criukshank (some occasional minor offsetting from plates onto text leaves). Original pink pictorial boards, uncut (some rubbing and light soiling, a few minor repairs); felt lined box and morocco pull-off case. FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of Cruikshank's series of comic tales, with the date on the title-page of volume one but lacking the volume number and with no dates on plate 7 in volume 2 and plate 4 in volume 3. Cohn 419. (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 27
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
4 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
Beschreibung:

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales . London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820.
CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales . London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820. 4 volumes, small 8 o (172 x 102 mm.). Hand-colored etched additional titles and 36 plates by Criukshank (some occasional minor offsetting from plates onto text leaves). Original pink pictorial boards, uncut (some rubbing and light soiling, a few minor repairs); felt lined box and morocco pull-off case. FIRST EDITIONS, FIRST ISSUE of Cruikshank's series of comic tales, with the date on the title-page of volume one but lacking the volume number and with no dates on plate 7 in volume 2 and plate 4 in volume 3. Cohn 419. (4)

Auction archive: Lot number 27
Auction:
Datum:
4 Dec 2009
Auction house:
Christie's
4 December 2009, New York, Rockefeller Center
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