THE CRUIKSHANKIAN MOMUS

[Cruikshank]

Description:

Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Headings. Fifty-Two Comic Designs to Popular Ballards by The Three Cruikshanks, The Elder Isaac, Robert and The Great George. Coloured by hand.

136 pages, 52 hand coloured plates, original decorated cloth – small tear at the head of the spine, top edge gilt, other edges uncut, contents good.

Number 440 of an edition limited to 520 copies.

Details:

  • Publisher: John C. Nimmo
  • Publisher Place: London
  • Date of Publication: 1892
  • Binding Condition: Good
  • Overall Condition: Good
  • Size: Tall 8vo (290 x 190 mm)
  • Lot No: 293
  • Hammer Price: $100
  • Bids: 1
  • Visits: 18
  • Estimate: $150/200
  • Reserve: $100

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  • Name: Clarke's Africana & Rare Books
  • Address: P.O. Box 186, Constantia, (Cape Town), 7848, South Africa
  • Contact Person: Paul Mills
  • Country of Origin: South Africa
  • Email: africana@clarkes.co.za
  • Website: www.clarkes.co.za
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  • Trade Association: ABA - ILAB, SABDA
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    Phone: 0027 21 794 0600

    Founded in 1958, Clarkes specialises in Africana and general antiquarian books, prints, maps and ephemera. Africana Catalogues are issued four times a year. All subjects are covered including, African exploration and travel, missionary endeavour, ethnography, Bushmen and rock art, big-game hunting, military history, the Anglo Boer War, Boer War ephemera, Zulu War and the First World War in East Africa and South West Africa, natural history (botany, ornithology, etc.), Mining (particularly diamonds and gold), Natal & Zululand, Namibia, art & architecture, literature & politics. Also Maps, prints and ephemera. We offer an active search service for all antiquarian and secondhand books.