Late-Georgian satirical prints.- [Fores (Samuel William, publisher and printseller, 1761-1838) and others]. Collector's folio album containing over 165 caricatures from 1790s to circa 1810, disbound, including a good quantity of Napoleonic satire and Anglo-French relations, and others satirising Anglo-European political issues and characters from 1790-1810, including original caricatures by Isaac Cruikshank (over 70), George Cruikshank (6), Charles Williams (over 35), George Woodward (7), William Heath one James Gillray 'The Dutch Divisions' [BM Satires 7171], an uncoloured copy of Thomas Rowlandson's 'An Ordinance Dream... ' [BM 6920], and many others, etchings and engravings, over 95 with hand-colouring, 67 uncoloured, all neatly trimmed within platemarks to borderlines or image and tipped onto uniform album leaves in pink and light brown, each leaf approx. 530 x 370 mm. (20 7/8 x 14 1/2 in), leaves disbound and loose without spine and lower cover, [?] upper cover remains, numerous nicks and tears to album leaves throughout, some affecting the prints, occasional small losses and handling creases to extremities, surface dirt and handling creases throughout, folio, over 140 published by S.W. Fores, [circa 1790-1810 or slightly later]. ⁂ A large collection of caricatures, the majority published by Fores, many with his imprint 'Folios of Caricatures lent out for the evening'.
Late-Georgian satirical prints.- [Fores (Samuel William, publisher and printseller, 1761-1838) and others]. Collector's folio album containing over 165 caricatures from 1790s to circa 1810, disbound, including a good quantity of Napoleonic satire and Anglo-French relations, and others satirising Anglo-European political issues and characters from 1790-1810, including original caricatures by Isaac Cruikshank (over 70), George Cruikshank (6), Charles Williams (over 35), George Woodward (7), William Heath one James Gillray 'The Dutch Divisions' [BM Satires 7171], an uncoloured copy of Thomas Rowlandson's 'An Ordinance Dream... ' [BM 6920], and many others, etchings and engravings, over 95 with hand-colouring, 67 uncoloured, all neatly trimmed within platemarks to borderlines or image and tipped onto uniform album leaves in pink and light brown, each leaf approx. 530 x 370 mm. (20 7/8 x 14 1/2 in), leaves disbound and loose without spine and lower cover, [?] upper cover remains, numerous nicks and tears to album leaves throughout, some affecting the prints, occasional small losses and handling creases to extremities, surface dirt and handling creases throughout, folio, over 140 published by S.W. Fores, [circa 1790-1810 or slightly later]. ⁂ A large collection of caricatures, the majority published by Fores, many with his imprint 'Folios of Caricatures lent out for the evening'.
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