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Westmacott's English Spy with Robert Cruikshank
Westmacott's English Spy with Robert Cruikshank
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Heading: (Cruikshank, Robert)
Author: Westmacott, Charles Molloy
Title: The English Spy: The Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, and Humorous. Comprising Scenes and Sketches in Every Rank of Society, Being Portraits of the Illustrious, Eminent, Eccentric, and Notorious/ Drawn from the Life by Bernard Blackmantle...
Place Published: London
Publisher:Sherwood, Jones and Co.
Date Published: 1825-1826
Description:


2 volumes. xxiii, [1], 417, [1]; xv, [1], 399, [1] pp. With 71 hand-colored aquatint plates, most by Robert Cruikshank; 1 uncolored woodcut plate; numerous woodcuts in the text. (8vo) 24x15 cm (9½x6") later full red straight grain morocco, gilt rule borders, spines gilt, raised bands, wide gilt dentelles, all edges gilt. Bound by Riviere and Son. First Edition.



With the first issue points, plate 28 misdated '1284' and Volume 2, page 222 is blank. Of the aquatint plates, 68 are by Robert Cruikshank, 2 by Thomas Rolandson, 1 by T. Wegman, and 1 by G.M. Brightly. Abbey Life 325; Tooley 504.

Condition
Extremities rubbed, spines ends lightly chipped; some foxing, plates a bit browned; very good.
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