Books and Manuscripts

(Dalton, James)
The Gentleman in Black
London: William Kidd, 1831. First edition. 12mo. iv, 309 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and four engraved plates, by George Cruikshank. Three-quarter navy blue morocco over blue linen-covered boards, stamped in gilt; top edge gilt, other edges trimmed; marbled endpapers. A handsome copy.

Together with:

Blanchard, Laman (editor)
George Cruikshank's Omnibus
London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition. 8vo. vi, (ii), 300 pp. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates and in-text illustrations by Cruikshank, as well as an engraved portrait of Cruikshank by C.E. Wagstaff. Full green levant, stamped in gilt, spine and boards edges browned; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; gilt dentelles; by Riviere & Son.

Together with:

A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (editor)
George Cruikshank's Table-Book
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1845. First edition. 8vo. viii, 284 pp. Illustrated with an engraved vignette title-page, 12 engraved plates, and numerous in-text wood engravings, by Cruikshank. Full green levant, stamped in gilt, spine and boards edges browned; top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed; gilt dentelles; by Riviere & Son.

A handsome collection of three titles illustrated by English caricaturist George Cruikshank.