6 vols.
Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 1st ed., 1st issue. 8vo, later 19th-cent. full scarlet morocco, gilt, a.e.g., gilt, red morocco doublures; occasionally slightly scuffed, spine ends & joints occasionally rubbed. With portrait + 12 plates by Cruikshank. Scattered minor spotting. Moderate spotting to front matter. With 12 titles, lacking adverts.(Dickens, Charles, editor.) Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi. London: Richard Bentley, 1838. 1st ed., 1st issue. 2 vols. 8vo, contemp. 1/2 purple cloth & marbled bds, spines gilt; extremities just rubbed. Portrait + 12 plates by Cruikshank. Moderate foxing. Lacking 1/2 titles & adverts. Cohn 237. * Mayhew, The Brothers, editors. Whom to Marry. London: David Bogue, [1848]. 1st ed in book form. 8vo, later 19th-cent. full crushed green morocco, gilt-lettered spine, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, inner Cohn 545. * (Smedley, Frank E.) Frank Fairlegh. London: A. Hull, Virtue, [1850 or slightly later.] 8vo, late 19th-cent. richly gilt full crushed green levant morocco, spine gilt, t.e.g., other edges untrimmed, turn ins gilt, raised bands; edges occasionally scuffed, spine fading to brown, by Sangorski & Sutcliffe.With 30 plates by Cruikshank. Internally generally clean. Early book form ed. Cohn 754. * Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. London: John Cassekk, 1852. 8vo, later 19th-cent. gilt paneled full tan calf, spine richly gilt, t.e.g., other edges rough trimmed, inner dentelles gilt; spine darkened, joints rubbed & stressed, orig. brown cloth covers & spine bound in, by Riviere & Son. With frontis portrait, title vignette, & 27 wood engraved plates by Cruikshank. Minor offsetting, light foxing to verso of frontis. 1st Cruikshank book form ed., and among the earliest English Uncle Tom's.
Cohn 777.