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"Old Miscellany Days," A Selection of Stories from Bentley's Miscellany. (From the parts) by various authors. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. With thirty-five illustrations, with autograph and portraits of George Cruikshank. Bentley's Miscellany.
MAGNIFICENT BINDING WITH AUTOGRAPH LETTER BY CRUIKSHANK
London: Richard Bentley, 1837-43.
8vo (9½" tall). Superb full red crushed morocco, by
TOUT. Gilt raised bands and pallets, fine gilt tooling
to panels. Boards framed with gilt floral corner
tool. Gilt doublures with floral patterned endpapers.
Top edge gilt. Slightly foxed. Armorial bookplate.
Original issues of Bentley's Magazine, bound with
special title page, contents and a preface dated 1889
by the collector John Waugh. Autograph letter and
stamped envelope from Cruikshank bound in, written in
a bold hand in black ink, 6 January 1860, 3 pages.
A magnificent deluxe binding by TOUT, with an
autograph letter and fine engraved plates by
Cruikshank. Cruikshank's lively letter is to his
friend George Mills, asking him for help with
subscriptions "amongst those rich Glasgow friends of
yours" and says that after 12 months' work his oil
sketch and watercolour drawing are nearly complete
and he finds himself "very much in want of the
"Needful"". He continues, "I should like to have your
thoroughly honest opinion ? however when you do see
it, I think you will say it is a rather curious
composition". Uniformly bound with our other
selections from Bentley's Miscellany.
£725.00
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