Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 81

Price Realized: $ 1,140
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE.) Carey, David. Life in Paris; Comprising the Rambles, Sprees, and Amours of Dick Wildfire. 21 hand-colored aquatint engravings by Cruikshank, with additional in-text woodcut engravings. 8vo, full crimson crushed morocco, covers panelled in gilt surrounding corner ornament champagne bottle motif in gilt, spine compartments tooled in gilt, inner dentelles, by W. Root & Son, all edges gilt, minor rubbing to extremities, rebacked with original spine laid down. London: Printed for John Fairburn, 1822

Additional Details

an excellent copy of the first edition with the scarce "To the Binder" leaf at the end, in a handsome and evocative binding. Tooley 129; Abbey, Travel 112.