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First Edition. Cruikshank Unbound: The Artist's Own Comic Magazine A Landmark of Victorian Graphic Humor - One Hundred Illustrations First Edition, Finely Bound by Wallis [CRUIKSHANK, George]. George Cruikshank's Omnibus. Illustrated with one hundred engravings on steel and wood. Edited by Laman Blanchard. London: Tilt and Bogue, 1842. First edition. Large octavo (8 13/16 x 5 1/2 inches; 224 x 140 mm.). [vii], iv, 300 pp. Engraved portrait, engraved pictorial preface, twenty engraved plates and seventy-eight woodcuts in the text. Handsomely bound ca. 1910 by Wallis in full tan calf, covers with triple-ruled gilt borders and corner ornaments, spine with five raised bands richly tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt board edges and elaborate gilt turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine, attractive copy. A major self-directed project by Cruikshank and an important document of mid-Victorian comic publishing, Cruikshank's Omnibus originated as a monthly serial (May 1841-January 1842) and represents the artist's deliberate move toward independence following his break with the publisher Richard Bentley. Conceived as a vehicle for his own artistic and satirical expression, the work gathers a rich miscellany of humorous essays, sketches, and serialized fiction. The editorial hand of Blanchard - assisted by William Harrison Ainsworth - helped assemble a lively roster of contributors, including Frederick Marryat and William Makepeace Thackeray. Yet the true center of gravity remains Cruikshank himself, whose prolific output here - one hundred illustrations in total - demonstrates his extraordinary versatility across both steel engraving and woodcut. Cruikshank's visual wit ranges from broad caricature to finely observed social comedy, reflecting the evolving taste of a Victorian audience increasingly attuned to illustrated periodicals. This example, preserved in an elegant early twentieth-century binding, offers a particularly pleasing presentation of one of Cruikshank's most ambitious independent ventures. Cohn, 190.

Northhampton , Members of the Victoria Road Church & Congregation, July 1906, in-folio album, 37 x 32 cm, contains 6 calligraphed leaves with the first 3 leaves elaborately ornated with initials and borders, (leaves only written on recto side and each mounted in a thick passe-partout (4 mm thick). The album was presented to Watson on the occasion of his 25 years of service at the church. The last three leaves bear the names of the members of the congregation. BINDING ; Bound in full blue morocco, front cover with an elaborate floral border and extra floral ornaments on the inside at the corners, paste downs within a leather gilt frame match the fly leaves and consist of flowers upon a curved line background, all printed in gilt. All edges gilt. Kept in blue cloth box. Binding signed on the inside '' Birdsall Northampton''. Finely preserved binding notwithstanding some unobtrusive damage by flaking of two gilt corner ornaments. The illuminations and calligraphy attest to a very high craftmanship. This attractive book is a fine specimen of a late Victorian gift book and it would be difficult in the 21st century to find the craftsmen who could replicate such an object.