[India paper proofs of 36 etchings for John Wight's Mornings at Bow Street and More Mornings at Bow Street].
[London].
[s.n.], [1827].
Quarto.
36 mounted india-paper proof etchings. Handsomely bound in nineteenth-century gilt- tooled tan morocco, contrasting black morocco lettering-pieces, A.E.G. A trifle rubbed, lower board marked, spine dulled. Internally clean and crisp.
A finely presented suite of india-paper proof etchings of the illustrations for one of caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank's (1792-1878) most successful productions, John Wight's series of comical vignettes Mornings at Bow Street (1827) and its sequel More Mornings at Bow Street (1827).
c/f Cohn 844.
£ 1,500.00
Antiquates Ref: 32649
