Cruikshank’s Water Colours

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Lot 270 | Cruikshank’s Water Colours
MORRELL BINDERY – CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). Cruikshank’s Water Colours. London: A. & C. Black, 1903.

Edition-de-luxe in extraordinarily lavish Morrell pictorial binding. No. 88 of 100 editions de luxe, on large paper. Signed by the publishers below limitation notice. This showcase of works by celebrated book illustrator George Cruikshank, reproduced in color, includes his scenes for Dickens’ Oliver Twist, and is presented in a fine binding by Morrell. Cohn, p.359.

Quarto (260 x 200mm). Half-title, frontispiece and 67 color plates with one engraved cut. Full crushed green levant morocco, elaborate Art Nouveau-style inlaid varicolored morocco and triple gilt fillet cover; doublures of the same; featuring large rectangular varicolored morocco onlay reproductions of Cruikshank’s “The last chance” (upper board) and “Fagin in the condemned cell” (lower board); orange morocco free endpapers; top edge gilt; stamp-signed by Morrell on upper turn-in (small repaired scratch to upper board). Provenance: Matthew Chaloner Borden, 1842-1912 (bookplate) – American Art Association, 17 Feb 1913, lot 172 – Christie’s East, 5 December 1991, lot 420.
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