THE BOOK ILLUSTRATION OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
First edition of the author's third art monograph, reproducing Cruikshank's illustrations of Dickens, Ainsworth, Sterne, Smollett, and others, with extensive commentary and context.
First edition of the author's third art monograph, reproducing Cruikshank's illustrations of Dickens, Ainsworth, Sterne, Smollett, and others, with extensive commentary and context.
Stunning original manuscript abecedary, a serpentine and thistle-laden gift to credulous antiquary Sir Thomas Dick Lauder in the year of the artist's co-publication of the famous disputed VESTIARIUM SCOTICUM.
Limited edition, signed by the illustrator, of Lamb's diverting and digressive essay on the Pig, for whom he has much appetitive affection but no pity whatever.
Limited critical edition of this pseudonymous 1842 response to Charles Dickens, here attributed to Poe by Dickens collector Joseph Jackson but later reclassified as the work of poet Nathaniel Wheeler Coffin.