Jun 21, 2012 - Sale 2282

Sale 2282 - Lot 248

Unsold
Estimate: $ 150 - $ 250
PHILLIPS, WATTS. "MP," showing how the Honorable Mr. Teddington Locke was not returned for the Incorruptible Borough of Bubengrub. 12 hand-colored etched plates by Phillips, including title. Oblong 8vo, contemporary flexible cloth with pictorial front wrapper laid down, shaken, slight fraying along edges; light marginal soiling and foxing; marbled board box, front lid joint partly cracked. London: Ackermann & Co., mid-19th century

Additional Details

Political satire by one of the few pupils of George Cruikshank. Abbey Life 313 ("c. 1840," although Phillips was born in 1825).