The travels and surprising adventures of Baron Munchausen. / With five illustrations by G. Cruikshank, and twenty-two full-page curious engravings.
George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878)
Category
Books
Date
1860 - 1869
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3085492
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], xii, [10], 268 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill. (some col.), port. ; 8vo. Pencil note on front free endpaper verso: "21 Coloured plates / some by Cruikshank". Pencil page numbers written on recto of unnumbered pages in preliminary sequence and following p. xii. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco over boards; gilt fillets to form a border; inlaid Cosway-style pictorial multi-coloured morocco centrepiece depicting Baron Munchausen; gilt-panelled spine, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Adventures of Baron Munchausen' and 'Cruikshank'; five raised bands; gilt inner border, board edges and textblock edges; marbled endpapers; red ribbon marker. Original purple cloth covers bound in at end. Binder’s gilt stamp on front turn-in: 'Bound by Bayntun (Rivière), Bath, England.'. In red cloth-covered box with black lettered spine 'Baron Munchuasen' and printed label on inside: 'Made in England'.
Makers and roles
George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator Rudolf Erich Raspe (1737-1794), compiler