Nov 14, 2017 - Sale 2462

Sale 2462 - Lot 93

Price Realized: $ 1,250
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 700 - $ 1,000
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. The Humourist: A Collection of Entertaining Tales, Anecdotes, Repartees, Witty Sayings, Epigrams, Bon Mots, Jeu d'espirts, &c. 4 volumes. Illustrated with 40 colored etchings including frontispiece and vignette title in each volume. 12mo, full crimson morocco by Riviere, French fillet borders, spines tooled in gilt in compartments, top edges gilt, inner dentelles; occasional foxing with plates generally bright and highly finished; original printed covers bound in at end of each volume. London: J. Robins, [c 1822]; 1819; 1819; 1820

Additional Details

fine uncut set. first edition of vols. 2, 3, and 4, vol. 1 likely a re-issue. All the plates contain Robins' imprint; each volume retaining the leaf at end with list of plates and the publisher's adverts on verso. Cohn 419.