(CRUIKSHANK GEORGE) Fairburn John Fairburns Description of t

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(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE.) Fairburn, John. Fairburn's Description of the Popular and Comic New Pantomime, called Harlequin and Mother Goose. Hand-colored frontispiece after Cruikshank. 12mo, crimson levant morocco gilt, by Rivière; original wrappers bound in; uncut; Sir David Salomons armorial bookplate. London, [1806]

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first edition, 31 pages. Said to be one of the earliest of Cruikshank's productions, the Truman copy having a note in Cruikshank's hand to that effect. This copy with an additional plate bound in, a brightly colored engraving by Harris after DeWilde of the noted actor Joseph Grimaldi. Cohn 280.