May 25, 2006 - Sale 2081

Sale 2081 - Lot 74

Price Realized: $ 1,092
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE; and the MAYHEW BROTHERS. "The Greatest Plague of Life," or, The Adventures of a Lady in Search of a Good Servant. Original 6 parts * First Edition in Book Form. Together, 7 volumes. 12 etched plates by Cruikshank. Parts are in illustrated yellowish-tan wrappers, spines professionally restored; laid into 1/4 gilt-lettered morocco clamshell box. Volume is 8vo, gilt-pictorial rose cloth; removed bookplate on frontispiece verso leaving abrasion. Cohn 544. London: Bogue, (1847)