Cruikshank's Offering of Mirth, Or, Evergreen of Fun, with Numerous Illustrations, from Drawings by Mr. Robert Cruikshank; Being the Third Series of Cruikshank at Home

Published by W. Kidd, London, 1835

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[4], 316, [4] p., frontispiece and 11 leaves of plates: title vignette and many in-text illustrations; 17 cm. Publisher's maroon rib-grained cloth with gilt-stamped decoration and title on spine: Cruikshank's Comic Library. Both boards decorated with bind-stamped vase with flowers. All page edges gilt. Yellow endpapers. Imprint includes: Simpkin & Marshall, London; W.F. Wakeman, Dublin, and Adam & Charles Black, Edinburgh. Publisher's advertisements on final 4 unpaginated pages for Edward Lacey, London. No date of publication; thought to have been published around 1835. Engraved armorial bookplate on front fixed endpaper for Wm. M. Patten, with motto: "Virtus laudanda." In Very Good- Condition: spine is faded; head of spine starting to fray; old dampstain on endpapers; pages and plates are clean and bright.

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Title
Cruikshank's Offering of Mirth, Or, Evergreen of Fun, with Numerous Illustrations, from Drawings by Mr. Robert Cruikshank; Being the Third Series of Cruikshank at Home
Author
Cruikshank, Robert
Publisher
W. Kidd, London
Publication year
1835
Condition
Very Good -
Binding
Hardcover
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With over a half-century of experience in working with books and manuscripts, we have a large and expanding stock, focusing primarily, but by no means exclusively, on 16th- to mid-19th-century books in English, French, and German in the fields of history, travel, and the arts, and children's books; late 19th- and early 20th-century military prints and postcards; and manuscripts, deeds, maps, and printed ephemera of all periods and disciplines.

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