May 14, 2019 - Sale 2508

Sale 2508 - Lot 73

Price Realized: $ 281
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE and ISAAC (illustrators). Egan, Pierce. Life in London. 36 hand-colored aquatint plates, 3 folding plates of sheet music, and wood engravings in text by Isaac and George Cruikshank. Lacking half-title. 8vo, contemporary mottled calf by Larkin, rebacked, spine tooled in gilt in compartments, two morocco lettering pieces, all edges gilt, inner dentelles (mostly perished); joints repaired, catalog description tipped to front pastedown, Cornelia Otis Skinner bookplate to front flyleaf, bound without ads. first edition, second issue with footnote on p. 9 and first sheet of music unnumbered. Plates bright and clean. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821