Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank , Extra-Illustrated.

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Thackeray, William Makepeace (1811-1863) Essay on the Genius of George Cruikshank, Extra-Illustrated. London, 1840. Sixty-page octavo pamphlet expanded to fill four small folio volumes, illustrated with 100 hand-colored and 319 black-and-white original Cruikshank etchings, uniformly bound in full crimson levant morocco with gilt tooling by Wood of London, housed in a set of custom cloth slipcases, ex libris George Clifford Thomas, in very good condition, wear to slipcases, 12 x 9 in. (4)
Provenance: The Estate of David Spinney.
Estimate $3,500-4,500


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