Author: CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE
Title: Cruikshank Plates: 12 plates along with excerpts from the comic almanack
Description: The Comic Almanack 1841. First Edition. Near fine copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges very slightly dust-dulled and toned. Remains particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; 12 plates ; 16 pages of excerpts from the comic almanack. Contents; January - Twelfth Night - drawing characters [plate] ; Twelfth Night (Not Shakspeare's). 255-256 pp. ; Curiosities of Ornithology [plate] ; March - Theatrical fun-dinner ; Theatrical Fun Dinner. 261-262 pp. ; April - 'I know a bank' Shaks: (A consol-atory refletion) [plate] ; Settling Day at 'The Corner'. 267-268 pp. ; May -Settling for the Derby - Long odds and long faces ; June - The unlicensed Victuallers Dinner ; July - Long days and Long ears ; The Invasion of Boulogne. 277-278 pp. ; August - Idées Napoliennes ; September - Massacre of St. Bartholomow' ; The Black Bottle Imp. 279-282 pp. ; October - A Drive in Drury Lane ; November 0 'Sees-unable weather' ; On Good Terms. 285 p. and A London Fog. 286-287 pp. and A Stirring Time. 288 p. ; December. - 'A Swallow at Christmas' (Rara avis in terris). Subjects; George Cruikshank. Comics. Plates. 1841. 19th century drawings. Weight in Kg appr.:

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