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CRUIKSHANK, George; Laman Blanchard [Editor].

George Cruikshank's Omnibus.

First edition of George Cruikshank's Omnibus

London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

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First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Omnibus. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Wood of London with gilt titles and floral tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, gilt ruling and floral detailing to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated with an engraved frontispiece and numerous plates and in-text illustrations by Cruikshank, as well as an engraved portrait of Cruikshank by C.E. Wagstaff. In very good condition with light rubbing, light toning, and splitting to the hinges at the crown of the spine. Ownership plate in morocco gilt of Frederick Thayer Hunt.
Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime, British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837–38) and Oliver Twist (1838). He also illustrated Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838), which Dickens edited under his regular nom de plume, "Boz". Cruikshank even acted in Dickens's amateur theatrical company.
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