Item #59817 George Cruikshank's omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq. George Cruikshank.
George Cruikshank's omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq
George Cruikshank's omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq

George Cruikshank's omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First book edition, 8vo, pp. [8], 300; engraved frontispiece and portrait plus 20 steel-engraved plates (all lightly spotted), and 78 illustrations in the text; all of the illustrations are by George Cruikshank except for three of the steel engravings; contemporary quarter maroon calf over marbled boards, black morocco label on spine; ex-library copy with bookplate, library rules, and occasional rubberstamps, small accession number at base of spine; extremities rubbed and worn, rear joint cracked with small loss near the bottom. See Cohen 190 for the first edition in parts issued the previous year. Item #59817

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