Sales catalogue: Sotheby's

Date:
June 1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/20/496
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue: Sotheby's. Source: Wellcome Collection.

    69/100 (page 49)
    307 Mayhew (Henry) 1851; or The Adventures of Mr. and Mrs. Sand- boys and Family, etc. at the Great Exhibition, FIRST ISSUE OF THE FIRST EDITION, 2z volume form, with error in the pagination at p. 62, ten fine large etchings by G. Cruikshank, original light blue cloth, uncut, a fine copy, with all the folding plates in perfect state, inserted arean A. L.s.of Henry Mayhew and a specimen of the green wrappers to the parts 8vo. D. Bogue, etc.{1851] 308 [Mogridge (G.)] Sergeant Bell and his Raree-Show, /rontispiece, vignette on title and some woodcuts by G. Cruikshank and other illustrations, original cloth ; from the Truman collection 12mo. Thomas Tegg, 1839 *.* Formerly attributed to Charles Dickens ; but “it has now been clearly established that, although Dickens proposed to write the book, the idea fell through, and it was eventually written by Mogridge, ‘Old Humphrey’” (A. JZ. Cohn, G. Cruikshank, Biblio- graphical catalogue, p. 145). 309 Morris (F. O.) History of British Birds, 6 vol. coloured plates, original cloth 8vo. Groombridge, 1851-7 310 Old English Colour Prints, 1909; James Ward, 1909 ; F. Wheatley, 1910; Old English Mezzotints, 1910; Studio and Connoisseur extra numbers, plain (and a few coloured) plates, three in wrappers and one in cloth 4to. (4) alt O’Neill (J.) The Drunkard. A Poem, FIRST ISSUE, portrait and Jour etchings by G. Cruikshank, list of Crutkshank’s works and Tilt’s publications, original cloth (dull), scarce 12mo. Tilt and Bogue, 1842 512 Owen (Hugh) Two Centuries of Ceramic Art in Bristol, being a History of the Manufacture of ‘The True Porcelain,” by Richard Champion, a coloured plate, whole-page engravings and facsimiles on wood, and a portrait of Nicholas Pocock inserted at p. 49, the printer's own copy, large paper (2), half morocco, g.e. privately printed for the author 8vo. Gloucester, 1873 313. Perrys (S.) Diary, with Lord Braybrooke’s Notes, with Index and Supplement ; edited by H. B. Wheatley, 10 vol. portraits and plates, original cloth, g.t. 8vo. 1899 314 Portraits. Catalogue of a Collection of Engraved Portraits, by Edward Evans, 2 vol. half cloth [1850-60 |—Catalogue of nearly 6000 Etchings and Engravings, by A. E. Evans and Sons, half morocco, g. t. n.d.—A General Catalogue of Engraved Portraits on Sale by Francis Harvey, 100 copies issued, half morocco, n. a. cr. 8vo. (A) 315 Portraits. Sale Catalogue of various Collections of Portraits including the Delabere (1811), Sir J. W. Lake (1808), Lilly E