May 12, 2011 - Sale 2247

Sale 2247 - Lot 232

Price Realized: $ 900
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. The Comic Almanack. Etched and woodcut illustrations by Cruikshank, including hand-colored folding plates in last three volumes. 18 volumes, lacking the final (1853) volume. 12mo, tan calf gilt with red and green spine labels, by Riviere and Son, scattered light edgewear but still attractive, few scattered surface imperfections; original wrappers bound in rear. London, 1835-52

Additional Details

with--Costumes of the Lower Orders of the Metropolis as published in Leigh's New Picture of London. 24 hand-colored plates of street vendors. 12mo, calf gilt with red spine label, lightly rubbed. (London, 1818).