AN ESSAY ON THE GENIUS OF GEORGE CRUIKSHANK: WITH NUMEROUS ILLUSTRATIONS OF HIS WORKS. (From the Westminster Review, No.LXVI)

LONDON: HENRY HOOPER, 1840 Full Blue Morocco leather binding , with five false bands, gilt titles and decoration to compartments, gilt linear borders front and back and gilt dentelles. 215 x 130 mm approx, Decorative gilt designed made end papers, all edges gilt. Original blue covers blind blocked with gilt titles bound in. ii + 60 pp Frontis + all woodcutts and etchings as called for. A Fine signed binding by Zaehnsdorf. Please see our images of the actual book offered for sale for further details and condition. Image shades are actually darker. Good (Restoration work - the book was bought in by us with the front board detached. The spine leather has been lifted to enable the back of the spine to be cleaned off, re glued with p.v.a.and new fray not mull, new Oxford hollow and a matching grained morocco leather spine to be fitted. The original Zaehnsdorf leather spine has been re laid with p.v.a. inevitably there is some evidence of the end papers have been disturbed as it was necessary to split the boards to fit the new mull. Whilst our skills are not up to Zaehnsdorf's standards of workmanship it is hoped that the new owner will find the result very respectable. As to the book block - there is no previous owner name or insc. 4 of the five etchings from the steel plates by Mr Yates are significantly browned with mirror offsetting of the images to the opposite leaf, inexplicably that of Philoprogenitiveness is not so affected. Pencil note to reverse of rear free end paper Suckly 10/- and a job or stock reference number).