Seven Volumes of Cruikshank Fine Bindings
including Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, with Twenty-seven Illustrations on Wood by George Cruikshank, London: John Cassell, 1852, specially bound in full leather with five raised bands, elaborately gilt-decorated spine and covers, inner gilt dentelles, signed Rowfant binding, teg., with original cloth bound in at rear, bookplate on the front free endpaper, very slightly rubbed at the extremities otherwise near fine; The Life of George Cruikshank in Two Epochs by Blanchard Jerrold, London: Chatto and Windus, 1882, 2 volumes, in full leather with five raised bands, elaborately gilt decorated spines and covers, inner gilt dentelles, signed Bayntun binding, teg., bookplate on the front pastedown, slight rubbing otherwise very good; George Cruikshank's Fairy Library, London: George Bell and Sons, 1885, bound in full leather with five raised bands, gilt-decorated spine and covers, marbled endpapers, inner gilt dentelles, signed Bayntun binding, aeg., in plain cloth slipcase, front hinge tender, spine slightly darkened, slight rubbing otherwise very good in a good only slipcase; The Comic Almanack 1835-1853, by George Cruikshank, London: John Camden Hotten, 2 volumes, bound in three-quarter leather over marbled boards, with five raised bands, gilt-decorated spines, teg., rubbed at the extremities otherwise very good; and Four Hundred Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank, London: Simpkin, Marshall, no date, bound in full leather with five raised bands, gilt-decorated and ruled spine and covers, signed binding, aeg., covers rubbed and edgewear otherwise very good
Provenance:Melrose Plantation, Thomasville, Georgia
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