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Estimate: $ 1,000 - $ 1,500
(CRUIKSHANK, ROBERT.) Westmacott, Charles Molloy. The English Spy. 2 volumes. 72 hand-colored aquatint plates, including 67 by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by Rowlandson, and one each by Wageman and Brightly; additional woodcuts in the text. With advertisement leaf at end of volume 1. Tall 8vo, original printed boards, darkened and spines creased, overall rubbing heaviest to joints with light exposure, joints cracked and partially detached on volume 2, scattered surface stains; some scattered foxing with offsetting from plates to facing pages but plates generally clean; preserved in 2 custom morocco gilt pull-off cases with silk chemises, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe. London: Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826
first edition, first issue. scarce in original boards. With the rare ad leaf present in vol. 1 (though not in vol. 2), and the plate facing page 389 of Volume 1 dated 1284 rather than 1824, and with the rare Rowlandson plate facing page 411 ("R.A.'s of Genius...") which is often lacking. Abbey, 325; Prideaux pp. 310, 328; Tooley 504.
