Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 85

Price Realized: $ 480
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 200 - $ 300
CRUIKSHANK, PERCY. Hints to Emigrants; or, Incidents in the Emigration of John Smith of Smith-Town. 9 hand-colored etched plates by Cruikshank. Oblong 8vo, publisher's pictorial wrappers, lightly soiled and foxed, with dampstain along top edge of front cover, possibly recased; light marginal foxing on plates; cloth folder. London: W. Hurst & Co., [1849?]

Additional Details

Comic scenes of a settler's misadventures coping with nature and natives in an unspecified New World locale. The illustrator was the son of George Cruikshank.