Jun 17, 2015 - Sale 2388

Sale 2388 - Lot 237

Price Realized: $ 531
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 800 - $ 1,200
[SNEYD, WALTER; and MORLEY, FRANCES PARKER, Countess of.] Portraits of the Spruggins Family, arranged by Richard Sucklethumkin Spruggins, Esq. Mounted hand-colored lithograph bound in as frontispiece; 44 lithographed plates after Sneyd. 4to, contemporary 1/2 red morocco by Jenkins and Cecil, spine tooled in compartments in gilt, joints and corners rubbed with exposure; ownership signature on frontis and title, bookplate on front pastedown, scattered foxing, chiefly marginal. [London?]: 1829

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first edition of a satire ridiculing a fictitious upper crust family, illustrated with grotesque portraits and "dedicated to the aristocracy of Great Britain." See Bodleian Library Record, VIII, 3, pp. 163-64.