THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF: With a Biography of the Knight, from authentic sources
by Cruikshank, George, by Robert B. Brough
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About This Item
London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1857 and 1858. First edition, in the original, untrimmed and unopened monthly parts: TEN OCTAVO PARTS IN PICTORIAL PAPERWRAPS, housed together in gilt-lettered green-cloth chemise with bookplate of Maude M. Monell and matching green-cloth slipcase. Pale yellow pictorial paperwraps each with woodcut after Cruikshank on front cover and each with two full-page plates at front -- 20 etched plates by Cruikshank in all. Apart from some minor soiling to wrappers an excellent untrimmed set with tissue guards present between all but one set of plates and with all but Part I unopened. Touch of spotting to plates, Part I; old damp stain to plate fore edges, Part VII; and stain to upper corner last several leaves and rear cover, Part VIII. Text on back wrappers corresponding to Cohn's except for Part III ("A List of New Works") and Part IV ("New Books of the Season"). Part VII with 4-page "List of New Works Announced for Publication" dated Nov. 1827 laid in. Cohn 96. IN THE ORIGINAL PARTS
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- Quill & Brush
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- 54014
- Title
- THE LIFE OF SIR JOHN FALSTAFF: With a Biography of the Knight, from authentic sources
- Author
- Cruikshank, George, by Robert B. Brough
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1857 and 1858
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
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