CRUIKSHANK, George.
George Cruikshank's Fairy Library: Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.
First Edition of George Cruikshank's Hop-O'My-Thumb and The Seven-League Boots
London: David Bogue, 1853.
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Item Number: RRB-148885
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First edition of this retelling of the classic French fairy tale. Duodecimo, bound in three-quarters morocco by W.J. Mansell with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in three compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, frontispiece, and illustrated with six etchings by George Cruikshank. In very good condition. Edited and illustrated by George Cruikshank. Bookplate to the front pastedown.
Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime, British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank was, for a time, England's most popular satirist. He illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837–38) and Oliver Twist (1838). Cruikshank's early work was caricature; but in 1823, at the age of 31, he started to focus on book illustration. He illustrated the first, 1823 English translation (by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine) of Grimms' Fairy Tales, published in two volumes as German Popular Stories.
George Cruikshank's Fairy Library: Hop-O'My-Thumb and the Seven-League Boots.
$475.00
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