George Cruikshank's omnibus / edited by Laman Blanchard. – London : Tilt and Bogue, 1842.

Accession Number: LIB-2558.2020

Category: Books

Title: GEORGE CRUIKSHANK'S | OMNIBUS. | ILLUSTRATED WITH ONE HUNDRED ENGRAVINGS ON STEEL | AND WOOD. | "De omnibus rebus et quibusdam aliis." | EDITED BY LAMAN BLANCHARD, ESQ. | LONDON : | TILT AND BOGUE, FLEET STREET. | MDCCCXLII.

Pagination: ffl, [2] – blanks [i, ii] – blank / engraved t.p. w/guard, [iii, iv] – t.p., colophon] [v], vi – contents, [vii, viii] – h.t. / blank, [ix] – list of etchings on steel, [x] – list of wood-cuts, [2] – blank, frontis. engraves portrait of G. Cruikshank; [1] 2-300 [2] – blanks, bfl; 22 full-page steel engravings (three not by Cruikshank) and 78 woodcuts. As per A. M. Cohn: i-ii+i-viii+1-2+1-300.

Binding: 24 x 14 cm, later full red morocco by Kelly and Sons with gilt and embossed designs to covers, designs, title and year lettering to spine, facsimile in gilt of Cruikshank's signature to front cover, gilt line to inner edges, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers.

Armorial bookplate of Harold A. Wernher of Luton Hoo to front pastedown. Major-General Sir Harold Augustus Wernher (1893 – 1973) – British military officer.

Originally bound in green, then red cloth, this binding by Kelly and Sons (Packer, Maurice. Bookbinders of Victorian London. London: British Library, 1991 page 84).

A. M. Cohn № 190, p. 65-66.

Motto translation: (About all things and something more besides).

Additional Information

Collection European prints and drawings , Illustrated books , Library
Type / Purpose Book
Period Mid-19th century
Country Great Britain
Media/Technique Engraving , Etching , Paper , Steel engraving , Wood engraving , Woodcut
Subject Caricature , English literature , English wit and humour , Humour , Literature , Satire
Language English
Creation / Publishing year 1842
Edition 1st edition
Binding Full morocco , Hardcover , Kelly and Sons (London)
Size 24 x 14 cm
Catalogue raisonne Albert M. Cohn (1924)
Signature Bookplate
Acquisition year 2020

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