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CLASSICS. Virgilius, Sallustius, Horatius, Carmina Ethica, Cornelius Nepos, Phædri Fabulæ, Audoeni Epigrammata, together 8 vols, LARGE PAPER, old red morocco, gilt edges (neat set), £1 10s-Les Editions Steréotypes de Didot, 1794-1801 [106 COBBOLD (Rev. Richard) Valentine Verses, or Lines of Truth, Love and Virtue, profusely illustrated with lithographic etchings by the Author, 8vo, boards, UNCUT, 10s 6d-Ipswich, 1827 [107 Only 300 copies printed, the major portion of which was bought up during the Author's lifetime.

With autograph of Mrs. E. L. Emmerson.

COHEN (Henry) Guide de l'Amateur de Livres a Vignettes (et a Figures) du XVIII. Siècle, fourth and last edition, royal 8vo, halj morocco neat, gilt top, £2 10s-1880 [108 COLERIDGE (Samuel Taylor) Sibylline Leaves, a Collection of Poems, the FIRST EDITION, 8vo, calf, neat, £1 1s-Rest Fenner, 1817 [109 COLERIDGE (S. T.) Zapolya, a Christmas Tale, in two parts, FIRST EDITION, 1817; and Christabel, Kubla khan, the Pains of Sleep, THIRD EDITION, 1816, in 1 vol, 8vo, uniformly bound with preceding, with Mrs. Emmerson's autograph, 15s-1816-17 [110 COLERIDGE (S. T.) Poems, SECOND EDITION, to which are now added Poems by Charles Lamb and Charles Lloyd, 12mo, calf, neatly rebacked, £1 1s-Bristol, 1797

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This edition is probably rarer than the first issued in the previous year, and derives peculiar interest from the early poems of Lamb included in it. COLERIDGE (S. T.) Poetical Works, the ALDINE EDITION, 3 vols, 12mo, morocco, gilt edges, 15s-Pickering, 1834 [112 COLERIDGE (S. T.) Letters, Conversations, and Recollections, the FIRST EDITION, 2 vols, Svo, cloth, £1 1s-E. Moron,

1836

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COWPER (William) Poems, the FIRST EDITION, Svo, calf, contemporary binding, RARE, £2 5s-London, J. Johnson, 1782

[114 CRASHAW (Richard) Steps to the Temple, Sacred Poems, with Delights of the Muses, frontispiece, small 8vo, calf, 18sCambridge, 1670

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CHRONICLES. Robert of Gloucester's Chronicle, transcribed from a MS. in the Harleyan Library, 2 vols; Peter Langtoft's Chronicle, transcribed from a MS. in the Inner Temple Library, edited by Thomas Hearne, together 4 vols, 8vo, uniformly bound, half calf gilt, gilt tops, fine copies, £1 10s-Oxford, 1824 [116 CRIMINAL Trials. Remarkable Trials and Interesting Memoirs of the most Noted Criminals convicted for High Treason, Murder, Conspiracy, Rape, &c., &c., from 1740 to 1764, 2 vols, 12mo, old binding, 7s 6d-1765 [117 CRIMINAL Trials. Von Feuerbach's Narratives of Remarkable Criminal Trials, translated from the German by Lady Duff Gordon, 8vo, cloth, UNCUT, 10s-1846

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CROMEK (R. H.) Remains of Nithdale and Galloway Song, with Historical and Traditionnl Notices Relative to the Manners and Customs of the Peasantry, engraved frontispiece, PRINTED ENTIRELY ON INDIA PAPER, 8vo, fine clean copy in boards, UNCUT, 15s— 1810 [119 CROQUILL (Alfred) The Tutor's Assistant, or Comic Arithmetic, amusing woodcut illustrations, post 8vo, newly bound, half Levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT EDGES, 15s-1843 [120 CUNNINGHAM (Peter) The Story of Nell Gwyn and the Sayings of Charles the Second, frontispiece and engraved title, crown 8vo, FINE COPY, clean in the original cloth, with unopened edges, £2-1852

Presentation copy from A. BIGGS to his amiable coz. E. L. EMMERSON.

[121 CURLING. An Account of the Game of Curling, with Songs for the Canon-Mills Curling Club, also Glossary of Terms and Phrases, beautifully reprinted from the Original Editions on hand-made paper, small 4to, vellum wrapper, UNCUT, 6s-1882

Only 250 copies struck off.

[122 CYPHERS. A New Book of Cyphers, more complete and regular than any ever published, wherein the whole Alphabet (twice over), CONSISTING OF 600 CYPHERS, is variously changed, interwoven and reversed, very entertaining to ye curious, and useful to all sorts of Artificers, by S. Sympson, small 4to, newly bound, mottled calf extra, gilt edgee, FINE COPY, £2 2s--1739 [123

CARICATURES. A very Interesting Collection of ONE HUNDRED AND TEN Coloured Caricatures by CRUIKSHANK, DIGHTON, LANE, MARTINET, VERNET, and others, mounted in a folio vol, £6 16s 6d [123a CARICATURES. A Rare Collection of One Hundred and Sixty-five Caricature Etchings by J. Sayer, caricaturing the most eminent Political, Social, and Public Personages and Events, in the latter part of the Eighteenth Century, several of which are unpublished and private plates, and the majority with names of the characters written in pencil, mounted on blue cartridge paper and bound in one volume, large folio, £12 12s

"Sayer, J., a Political Caricaturist who lived in the latter part of the eighteenth century. His works, it is said, are numerous, and were in favour with the High Church and State partisans of the day, as his satire was levelled at the Dissenters and Whig asserters of political liberty. Like others of his clas, he made the most eminent persons the object of his attacks, and spared neither learning nor talent if opposed to the principles then in vogue."

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CARICATURES. A Political and Satirical History of the years 1756 and 1757, IN A SERIES OF SEVENTY-FIVE HUMOROUS AND ENTERTAINING ETCHINGS representing the most remarkable Transactions, Characters, and Caricatures of those two memorable years, to which is annexed an Explanatory Account or Key to every print, which renders the whole full and significant, square 18mo, polished calf super extra, gilt edges, £2 2s-1756 [123c

With the two scarce plates generally missing, entitled "The Ostrich" and "The Whiskers."

A Fine and Choice Collection of Works
Illustrated by

GEORGE & ROBERT CRUIKSHANK.

AINSWORTH'S Tower of London, with excellent impressions of the 40 plates and numerous woodcuts by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 8vo, fine copy in the original cloth, UNCUT, £1 15s-1844 7124 AKERMAN'S (J. Y.) Tales of Other Days, with illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, engraved by Thompson and Williams, post 8vo, boards, UNCUT, £1 4s-Effingham Wilson, 1830 125 ANSTEY (Christopher) The New Bath Guide, with Biographical and Topographical Preface, and Anecdotical Annotations by John Britton, illustrated by George Cruikshank, post 8vo, cloth, UNCUT, £1 5s-1832 BARKER (Capt.) Greenwich Hospital, a Series of Naval Sketches descriptive of the Life of a Man-of-War's Man, by an Old Sailor, with 12 most humorous coloured plates by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 4to, FINE COPY, half blue morocco gilt, gilt top, UNCUT, £3 3s-J. Robins, 1826 127

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BARKER (Capt.) Land and Sea Tales, by the Old Sailor, Author of "Tough Yarns," &c., frontispieces and engraved titles by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 2 vols, 12mo, cloth, UNCUT, £1 1s-1836 (128 BENTLEY Ballads, The, containing Choice Ballads, Songs and Poems contributed to "Bentley's Miscellany," edited by Dr. Doran, FRONTISPIECE BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, crown Svo, original cloth, gilt, 78 6d-1862 BROUGH (R. B.) The Life of Sir John Falstaff, ILLUSTRATED WITH 20 ETCHINGS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, royal 8vo, whole bound, polished calf, super extra, gilt edges, £3 15s—1858 [130 CLEMENT Lorimer, or the Book with the Iron Clasps, a Romance by Angus B. Reach, 12 PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, post 8vo, FIRST EDITION, half calf gilt, 15s-1849 CERVANTES' Don Quixote, translated by Jarvis, NUMEROUS PLATES BY ROBERT CRUIKSHANK, 2 vols, 12mo, half red morrocco extra, gilt tops, UNCUT, 18s-1828 COMBE (William) The Life of Napoleon, a Hudibrastic Poem, in 15 Cantos, by Doctor Syntax, the FIRST EDITION, with 30 highly spirited coloured plutes by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, royal 8vo, fine copy in contemporary calf gilt binding, VERY RARE, £4 10s-1815 COMIC Alphabet, a Series of 26 highly humorous Plates, Designed, Etched, and Published by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, on one expanding sheet, very fine coloured copy, perfectly clean, in the original cover, as published, £1 15s-1837 [134 COMIC Alphabet, The, COLOURED ILLUSTRATIONS TO EACH LETTER by R. Cruikshank, 12mo, original wrapper, 5s-Darton [135 FIELDING (H.) History of Tom Jones the Foundling, with Memoir by Roscoe, PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 2 vols, 12mo, cloth boards, UNCUT, 14s-Novelist's Library, 1831

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GENTLEMAN in Black, The, woodcut illustrations by
George Cruikshank, 12mo, newly bound, half Levant morocco extra, gilt
top, UNCUT, 15s-W. Kidd, 1831
GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S Omnibus, edited by Laman
Blanchard, the FIRST EDITION, illustrated with 100 engravings on steel
and wood, royal 8vo, VERY FINE COPY, half red morocco extra, gilt top,
UNCUT, BOUND UP FROM THE ORIGINAL NUMBERS WITH SPECIMEN OF
WRAPPER INSERTED, £3 5s-Tilt and Bogue, 1842
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GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S Table Book, edited by
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, containing contributions by Mayhew, A'Beckett,
Mark Lemon, Paul Prendergast, Thackeray, Reach and others, ILLUS-
TRATED BY 100 WOODCUTS AND 12 STEEL PLATES BY GEORGE CRUIK-
SHANK, the FIRST EDITION, royal 8vo, half calf, £3 10s-Punch Office,

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GOLDSMITH'S Vicar of Wakefield, plates by George Cruikshank, fcap, half morocco, gilt top, 12s 6d-1832

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JAMES Hatfield and the Beauty of Buttermere, a *Story of Modern Times, with illustrations by Robert Cruikshank, 3 vols, post 8vo, boards, UNCUT, 12s 6d-1843 [141 KIT Bam's Adventures, or the Yarns of an Old Mariner, by Mary Cowden Clarke, 4 plates by George Cruikshank, the FIRST EDITION, 12mo, original cloth gilt, 12s 6d-1849 KIDD'S Little World of Great and Good Things, The Book of Books, or London as it is, and as it ought to be, and Century of Wisdom in all its Branches, humorous cuts by Cruikshank, Seymour and Bonner, 3 vols, fcap, cloth, 10s 6d LYMPSFIELD and its Environs, and the Old Oak Chair, a Ballad, 12 lithographic illustrations, also 4 whole page vignettes by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 8vo, cloth £1 5s-Westerham, 1838 MAXWELL'S (W. H.) History of the Irish Rebellion

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in 1798, with Memoirs of the Union and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803, the FIRST EDITION, with plates by George Cruikshank and portraits, Svo, calf gilt, £2 15s-Baily Bros., 1845 [145 MORNINGS at Bow Street, a Selection of the most Humorous and Entertaining Reports which have appeared in the "Morning Herald," by Mr. Wight, the FIRST EDITION, with 21 illustrative drawings by George Cruikshank (some slightly water stained), post Svo, boards, UNCUT, £2-C. Baldwyn, 1824 [146 PETER Schlemihl (The Shadowless Man), from the German of Lamotte Fouqué, the FIRST EDITION, 8 illustrations by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, 12mo, polished calf super extra, gilt top, UNCUT, £2.58-1824 PHRENOLOGICAL Illustrations, or an Artist's View of the Craniological System of Doctors Gall and Spurzheim, by George Cruikshank, humorous sketches, FIRST EDITION, oblong 4to, cloth, uncut, £1 5s-1826

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PUNCH and Judy, with ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, post 8vo, the THIRD EDITION, NEWLY BOUND, half blue Levant morocco extra, gilt top, BOUND UP WITH THE ORIGINAL BOARDS, scarce in this state, £2-1832

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SMITH (James and Horace) Rejected Addresses, or the New Theatrum Poetarum, 23RD EDITION, with additional notes, portraits of the Authors, and cuts by George Cruikshank, 12mo, original cloth, UNCUT, 10s 6d-1852 SUNDAY in London, illustrated in fourteen cuts by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, and a few words by a Friend of his, vignette on title, and whole-page illustrations, post 8vo, in the publisher's boards, UNCUT, with interesting contemporary advertisements and criticisms, £1 158-Effingham Wilson, 1833 [151

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SUNDAY in London, another copy, half brown morocco neat, M.L., £1 13s-1833 THE AGE of Intellect, or Clerical Showfolk and Wonderful Layfolk, a Series of Poetical Epistles between Bob Blazon in Town and Jack Jingle in the Country, dedicated to the Fair Circassian, by Francis Moore, amusing frontispiece by George Cruikshank, 12mo, half Levant morocco, gilt top, UNCUT EDGES, 12s 6d-W. Hone, 1819

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THE BEE and the Wasp, a Fable in Verse, with four etchings by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, the FIRST EDITION, 12mo, in the original wrapper, UNCUT, £1 5s-Tilt, 1832 THE LADY and the Saint, in Three Cantos, 10 vignette illustrations by ROBERT CRUIKSHANK, post 8vo, cloth, UNCUT, 7s 6d— 1839

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THE WESTMINSTER REVIEW for June, 1840, containing W. M. THACKERAY'S ESSAY ON GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, with all the humorous facsimile illustrations, woodcut and whole-page, 8vo, IN THE ORIGINAL WRAPPER, £2 5s-1840 THE DEVIL'S WALK, a Poem, by Professor Porson; Monsieur Tonson, by John Taylor; The Epping Hunt, by Tom Hood; The Yorkshire Hunt, by William Cowper; Bombastes Furioso, by Rhodes; all illustrated by G. and R. Cruikshank, and FIRST EDITIONS, the 5 works bound in 1 vol, half calf, £1 5s-1829-30

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THE DIVERTING History of John Gilpin, showing how he went farther than he intended, and came home safe again, WITH SIX ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE CRUIKSHANK, engraved on wood by Thompson Branston, and others, square 8vo, in the original wrapper, EXTREMELY SCARCE, £1 15s-Tilt, 1828 158

THE GREATEST Plague of Life, or the Adventures of a Lady in search of a good Servant, by one who has been "almost worried to death," edited by the Brothers Mayhew, 12 illustrations by George Cruikshank, post 8vo, AS CLEAN AS WHEN ISSUED IN THE SIX ORIGINAL NUMBERS, £1 10s-D. Bogue, N.D.

[159 WOODWARD (G. M.) Eccentric Excursions, or Literary and Pictorial Sketches of Countenance, Character, and Country in different parts of England and South Wales, interspersed with curious Anecdotes, illustrated by 93 highly amusing coloured plates, some folding, in Isaac Cruikshank's best style, after Woodward, 4to, halj morocco, marbled leaves, £3 13s 6d-1796-8

Wanting seven plates and the title, yet desirable even in this state, having become very scarce. Comerford's copy fetched over £7.

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