London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, [c.1855]. 8vo, 2 vols. in 1: xviii, 320; 304 pp. Title-page printed in black and red, complete with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous in-text wood engravings in each volume, including frontispieces. Full tan crushed morocco, all edges gilt, with original backstrip and upper panel..... More
San Francisco: Schmidt Label & Litho Co., The Wasp, Aug. 15, 1885 Folio 13 3/4 x20 1/4”, pp. 7-10, two-page color lithograph 11 1/2 x 18 1/8”, text to verso. small tear along center fold, chipping and foxing to edges; very good. § From the original edition of this issue..... More
![Item #126308 The Comic Almanack. First Series [and] Second Series. George Cruikshank](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/126308.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1733868301)
London: Chatto and Windus, 1835-1843 [and] 1844-1853. 2 vols. 8vo, 388; 428, [32, ads] pp. Bound alike in publisher's green cloth lettered and illustrated in gilt on upper boards and backstrips. Occasional scattered foxing, vol. 2 cracked in places with two plates now detached, but overall in remarkably fresh and..... More
London: J. Robins and Co., 1819-1820. 4 vols, 8vo. Forty hand-colored etched plates after Cruikshank, including four frontispieces and four vignette titles. Full brick red morocco, backstrips lightly sunned, scattered foxing. Bookplates of Albert Ramsay-Cohn and of one other; early ownership inscription of Adam Paterson on front blank in each..... More
No place (but London?): no date (ca. 1820?). 2 pp., small 4to, written in brown ink on one side and addressed on the other with a watercolor drawing by Cruikshank. § A tantalizing letter: addressed only to “Mr. Cumberland,” it is tempting to hope it might be George Cumberland, especially..... More
London: H. Humphr[ey]ies, 6 April 1813. Broadside, 8 x 12 3/4” hand-colored etching, title information printed below. Mounted, minor foxing to outer edges; very good. § Probably an early proof. Satirical portrait of a stout gentleman on horseback, unsigned but likely by James Gillray. Hannah Humphrey was the sister of..... More
The Ohio State University Libraries, 1997. Oblong 8vo, [20] pp., b&w comics and illustrations throughout. Illustrated orange paper wrappers. Pamphlet, staple bound. Inscribed drawing by Nicole Hollander laid in. Lightly stained; very good. § The catalogue from An Exhibition of Cartoons by Nicole Hollander at The Ohio State University Cartoon..... More
London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co., 1865. Oblong folio, 94, 96 pp. Half morocco and green pebbled cloth boards, backstrip lettered in gilt, upper board pictorially stamped in gilt, marbled endpapers. Backstrip and tips considerably rubbed and worn but binding sound overall, pages with occasional light foxing and closed tears. Very..... More
Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1845. Small 8vo, in sixes, 72 pp. Hand-colored folding frontispiece "Farming for Ladies", engraved title-page, and seven black and white plates (lacking one?). Full orange orange morocco, plain endpapers, backstrip stamped in gilt; possibly the work of a student but nicely done. Text moderately foxed, plates..... More
London: Published at the Punch Office, [1848]. Folio. Original illustrated wrappers and 12 hand-colored plates interleaved by blanks, bound in half red morocco ruled and lettered in gilt with marbled endpapers and small oval bookplate of Alexander McGrigor. Hinges and board edges somewhat worn, large closed tear and small chips..... More
San Francisco: Arion Press, 2004. Folio, ix, 107 (1, colophon)pp. With illustrations by William Hamilton in black and white. A fine, unmarked copy in the original acetate. § A perfect copy of this fragile book, limited to 300 copies and often found damaged -- the outer wrapper bears a warning..... More
![Item #107488 20th Annual Book of Norris Cartoons from the Vancouver Sun [Paperback]. Leonard Norris](https://johnwindle.cdn.bibliopolis.com/pictures/107488.jpg?width=320&height=427&fit=bounds&auto=webp&v=1551287147)
Vancouver: The Sun, n.d [circa 1971]. Oblong 8vo, approx. 100 pp., black and white cartoons printed to every page. Mustard yellow paper wrappers with pictorial color illustrations. Some chips and stains to wrappers, minor foxing; good. § First edition. Len Norris (1913-1997) was a longtime editorial cartoonist for the Canadian..... More
London: R. Ackermann, 1813. 8vo in 4s, [4], xv, [1, blank], 215, [1, blank] pp. Twenty-one hand-colored aquatint plates (including frontispiece). Full crushed red morocco by Riviere, covers gilt-ruled, backstrip with five raised bands paneled in gilt, gilt dentelles, green coated endpapers, all edges gilt. Joints lightly worn, some offsetting..... More
