George Cruikshank's omnibus. : Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. / Edited by Laman Blanchard, Esq.
George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878)
Category
Books
Date
1842
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3082283
Summary
Bibliographic description
vi, [4], 300p., plates : ill. (woodcuts) ; 8vo. Grangerised copy: contains a second copy of each plate, hand-coloured. Tipped-in clipping from book dealer's catalogue describing this copy. Bookseller's pencil note on front pastedown describing this copy (price erased). Pencil bookseller's codes and number "9388" on rear free endpaper. Provenance: Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate: Gordon Cuming Skene. Of Pitlurg and Dyce. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate large variant, signed Badeley 1930: Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Broughton (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century full pale blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form a border; sewn onto five cords; spine gilt with red morocco in-lays, lettered direct: 'George Cruikshank's omnibus Edited by Blanchard'; gilt fillets on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; dark red endpapers; front doublure gilt stamped: Bound by Riviere & Son.
Makers and roles
George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), author Samuel Laman Blanchard (1804-1845) , editor