Cruikshank, George
First editions, rare books, and original artwork and prints by George Cruikshank.
(DICKENS, Charles) CRUIKSHANK, George.
Original sketch portrait of the young Charles Dickens. [1838]
£30,000
The sketch shows Dickens seated in an upholstered armchair, holding a book, beside a covered table. It is signed Charles Dickens just below the figure, above Cruikshank's signature,...
Signed original pencil sketch of the young Charles Dickens (208 × 158 mm). Laid down on card and with card mount; neat paper repair to top right & lower left... Read more
(CRUIKSHANK, George) [COMBE, William]
Life of Napoleon, A Hudibrastic Poem in Fifteen Cantoes by Dr. Syntax, 1815
£1,250
First edition, with all points as called for in Abbey. A satirical life of Buonaparte, its intentions best summed up by the allegorical title page, which shows the young Corsican as...
Octavo (225 × 147 mm). Later red full crushed morocco, by Larkins, gilt panels with stylized fleur-de-lys cornerpieces to the boards, spine gilt in compartments,... Read more
![The Comic Almanack, For 1839 [1840]: an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing "all things fitting for such a work."](/content/store/products/4627/2/6138.jpg)
CRUIKSHANK, George (illus.); [THACKERAY, William Makepeace.]
The Comic Almanack, For 1839 [1840]: an ephemeris in jest and earnest, containing "all things fitting for such a work." 1839 & 1840
£850
First editions. These are the only two annual volumes of Cruikshank's Comic Almanack for which William Makepeace Thackeray supplied stories: "Stubbs's Calendar; or, the Fatal Boots"...
2 volumes, small octavo. Original pictorial wrappers, the volume for 1839 printed in dark blue, that for 1840 in sepia. The two volumes protected in a dark olive... Read more
CRUIKSHANK, George.
The Humourist. 1892
£500
First thus, number 251 of an edition of 260. This presented to Harold Nicolson by Horace Rumbold in 1929, inked inscription to the first blank of volume I. Nicolson had served under...
4 volumes octavo (194 × 142 mm) Early twentieth-century tan half morocco on matching linen boards by Bayntun, title gilt to spines, raised bands, French fillet... Read more
