Caricature History of the Georges, or annals of the House of Hanover, compiled from the squibs, broadsides, window pictures, lampoons, and pictorial caricatures of the time ("Only 100 copies of this large paper edition have been printed. It contains the whole of the text and all the pictures of the small paper edition together with additional portraits of John Gillray, the caricaturist and Pitt, Earl of Chatham")
by Thomas Wright (editor); illustrated
- Used
- fair
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- fair
- Seller
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Newmarket, New Hampshire, United States
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About This Item
London, England: John Camden Hotten, 1867. First Edition. Hardcover. fair. This copy is not in collectible condition and is offered solely as an reading copyQuarto, 10 1/4" tall, color frontispiece + 639 pages with intertextual 'nearly 400' woodcut illustrations + 14 steel engravings, gilt spine titles, and decorations on 1/4 leather over red boards. A fair copy only with general shelf wear, back strip leather badly chipped, fore corner tips through the boards, binding broken, some signatures and pages loose (but all present) paper moderately yellowed illustrations clean and bright, but title page and one engraved page (both on heavier paper) are edge chipped. Complete but not collectible as is. Priced accordingly. This is a large and heavy volume requiring additional postage.
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- Bookseller
- Avenue Victor Hugo Books LLC (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 37113
- Title
- Caricature History of the Georges, or annals of the House of Hanover, compiled from the squibs, broadsides, window pictures, lampoons, and pictorial caricatures of the time ("Only 100 copies of this large paper edition have been printed. It contains the whole of the text and all the pictures of the small paper edition together with additional portraits of John Gillray, the caricaturist and Pitt, Earl of Chatham")
- Author
- Thomas Wright (editor); illustrated
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - fair
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- Publisher
- John Camden Hotten
- Place of Publication
- London, England
- Date Published
- 1867
- Keywords
- English History; Prisons; Robbery; Sociology; Crime; Law; Mob
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Avenue Victor Hugo Books specialize in first editions of the best in fiction, history, biography, poetry, drama, and essay. Our catalogue features careful, considered assessments of all of our stock. We are not flippers selling books by the pound. Instead, we try to limit our stock to books in a condition we'd be proud to place on our personal bookshelves.
For nearly 30 years, Avenue Victor Hugo Books was a fixture of Newbury Street in Boston's Back Bay, at one time holding over a quarter-million magazines and 150,000 used books. Awarded "Best Used Bookstore" multiple times by Boston Magazine, the store was a favorite of Boston-area authors and college students alike.
Since relocating to New Hampshire our shop has been featured on WBGH Boston News, WVCB's "Boston Chronicle," NHPR, and WMUR's "New Hampshire Chronicle." Avenue Victor Hugo has also recently been featured in "New Hampshire magazine," "The Boston Globe," UNH's "The New Hampshire," "The New Hampshire Union Leader," and "Foster's Daily Democrat."
Our store is open Fridays & Saturdays from 10am to 6pm in Lee, New Hampshire, less than 10 minutes from the University of New Hampshire.
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