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  • The first edition of Joe Lisle's play on words, containing fourty hand-coloured aquatints.
    The first edition of Joe Lisle's play on words, containing fourty hand-coloured aquatints.

    LISLE, Joseph.
    Joe Lisle's Play Upon Words. 1828.
    $1,708.00

  • The first edition of Photographic Pleasures by Cuthbert Bede, containing 24 amusing hand-coloured plates depicting visual puns.
    The first edition of Photographic Pleasures by Cuthbert Bede, containing 24 amusing hand-coloured plates depicting visual puns.

    BEDE, Cuthbert B.A. (pseud. BRADLEY, Edward).
    Photographic Pleasures: 1855.
    $820.00

  • The first edition of Charles D'Oyly's Tom Raw, The Griffin containing 25 satirical hand-coloured plates.
    The first edition of Charles D'Oyly's Tom Raw, The Griffin containing 25 satirical hand-coloured plates.

    [D'OYLY, Sir Charles].
    Tom Raw, The Griffin: 1828.
    $1,708.00

  • First edition of A Touch at the Fine Arts by Henry Alken, with 12 hand-coloured aquatints.
    First edition of A Touch at the Fine Arts by Henry Alken, with 12 hand-coloured aquatints.

    ALKEN, Henry.
    A Touch at the Fine Arts: 1824.
    $1,298.00

  • First edition of Journal of a Landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon by Robert Seymour, with 24 hand-coloured plates satirising life on the Royal Navy.
    First edition of Journal of a Landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon by Robert Seymour, with 24 hand-coloured plates satirising life on the Royal Navy.

    SEYMOUR, Robert (illustrator).
    Journal of a Landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon, 1831.
    $6,148.00

  • Stockholmska Scener by Hjalmar Morner, containing 16 lithographs of humerous scenes of Swedish life.
    Stockholmska Scener by Hjalmar Morner, containing 16 lithographs of humerous scenes of Swedish life.

    MORNER, Hjalmar (illustrator).
    Stockholmska Scener. [c.1830].
    $1,708.00

  • First edition of Horse Accomplishments by Thomas Rowlandson and George Woodward, containing 12 humorous hand-coloured aquatints of horses and riders.
    First edition of Horse Accomplishments by Thomas Rowlandson and George Woodward, containing 12 humorous hand-coloured aquatints of horses and riders.

    Rowlandson, Thomas (engraver); Woodward, George Moutard (illustrator).
    Horse Accomplishments. 1799.
    $7,856.00

  • The first and only issue of the 12 plates comprising Comforts of Bath by Thomas Rowlandson, one of his rarest sets.
    The first and only issue of the 12 plates comprising Comforts of Bath by Thomas Rowlandson, one of his rarest sets.

    ROWLANDSON, Thomas.
    Comforts of Bath. 1798.
    $6,148.00

  • An exceptionally handsome set of William Hogarth Illustrated, edited by John Ireland, with 135 finely engraved plates.
    An exceptionally handsome set of William Hogarth Illustrated, edited by John Ireland, with 135 finely engraved plates.

    HOGARTH, William (illustrator); IRELAND, John (editor).
    Hogarth Illustrated 1812.
    $1,162.00

  • 44 hand-coloured lithographed plates on Parisian & London life by Henry Monnier, in which he recorded the manners and life of both cities.
    44 hand-coloured lithographed plates on Parisian & London life by Henry Monnier, in which he recorded the manners and life of both cities.

    MONNIER, Henry, illustrator
    Moeurs Administrative dessinés d'aprés nature 1828.
    $7,514.00

  • One of 95 copies on papier imperial japon, signed by the author and illustrator Fabien Lorenzi, in art deco style binding.
    One of 95 copies on papier imperial japon, signed by the author and illustrator Fabien Lorenzi, in art deco style binding.

    CHAMPSAUR, Felicien; LORENZI, Fabien, illustrator
    Le Semeur d'Amour 1924
    $4,099.00

  • Fifty caricature portraits by Beerbohm, including one of George Bernard Shaw who had recommended Beerbohm as his Saturday Review replacement in 1898.
    Fifty caricature portraits by Beerbohm, including one of George Bernard Shaw who had recommended Beerbohm as his Saturday Review replacement in 1898.

    BEERBOHM, Max.
    Fifty Caricatures. 1913.
    $240.00

  • First editions of John Leech's Comic History of Rome in original parts, published in London in 1852.
    First editions of John Leech's Comic History of Rome in original parts, published in London in 1852.

    LEECH, John, Illustrator; Gilbert Abbott à Beckett.
    The comic history of Rome. 1852.
    $2,255.00

  • First edition, bound from the parts. The first tour of Doctor Syntax, republished as Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque.
    First edition, bound from the parts. The first tour of Doctor Syntax, republished as Doctor Syntax in Search of the Picturesque.

    (ROWLANDSON, Thomas.) [COMBE, William.]
    The Schoolmaster's Tour. [in The Poetical Magazine.] 1809-11
    $3,416.00

  • Number 313 of only 500 copies. A complete bibliography of all works illustrated by Cruikshank with numerous examples printed on plates.

    COHN, Albert M.
    George Cruikshank. 1924.
    $301.00

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