Nov 17, 2020 - Sale 2551

Sale 2551 - Lot 162

Price Realized: $ 594
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. Frontispiece to "Patriotic Allegory, by Peregrine Castigator." Engraving by Cruikshank, 200 x 150 mm, sheet, laid down to trimmed border. Depicts British lion standing over a four-headed snake (in caricature). Title at top reads "Annual Paliaments & Universal Suffrage. Deceased"; at bottom, "Covent Garden, 3rd March 1819" and with additional, nearly identical, engraving by Pailthorpe tipped to sheet with "Pailthorpe's facsimile" written in pencil at bottom. Both are loosely laid in folding lavender card with the armorial bookplate of Albert M. Cohn and partly printed library label and completed in ink likely in Cohn's hand, asserting that this is "of the utmost rarity. This is Dr. Thurman's copy. See his note on back of plate." Which reads: "Only 2 of these known, Blackwell has the other. This was [?]. Parker bought it of the little [?] with the black bag that collects Casinay[?]. Parker May 11 67." Reid 4718; Doulas 434; Cohn 639. London, 1819