May 15, 2018 - Sale 2478

Sale 2478 - Lot 99

Price Realized: $ 1,950
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 1,800 - $ 2,500
(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE). The Scourge; or Monthly Expositor of Imposture and Folly. 11 (of 12) volumes containing 66 parts (of 72). 66 folding hand-colored engraved plates by Cruikshank and others. 8vo, contemporary full tan calf by Riviere, triple gilt fillet covers, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, morocco lettering pieces in two, all edges gilt, boards detached on 2 vols., spines dried somewhat with occasional chips, vol 1. with repair to crown and loss at foot, joints rubbed; inner dentelles, 3 vols. with plates mis-folded resulting in creasing and edge tears, scattered light to moderate foxing, lacking advertisements. London: M. Jones; W.N. Jones; James Johnston, 1811-16

Additional Details

first editions in book form, among the scarcest periodicals illustrated by cruikshank. With the additional colored plate in vol. 8; and two additional (of 3) colored plates in vol. 7, second issue of this volume ("ends at p. 512, the last six pages being omitted") Cohn 732.