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First Edition. Queen Caroline Sliced And Diced By Satirists' Blade Fifty Devastating Hand-Colored Caricatures Directed Against the British Monarchy CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. CRUIKSHANK, I.R., illustrator. LANE, Theodore, illustrator. The Attorney-General's Charges Against The Late Queen, brought forward in the House of Peers, on Saturday, August 19, 1820. Illustrated with Fifty Coloured Engravings. London: G. Humphrey, [1821]. First edition. Folio (18 13/16 x 13 inches; 478 x 330 mm.). [2, title, imprint on verso]. 20 pp. by Robert Gifford, Attorney-General. Hand colored frontispiece and forty-nine hand colored etched plates, the majority being by Theodore Lane. Six of the plates are by George Cruikshank; one is after George Cruikshank; three are by Isaac Robert Cruikshank. All plates with interleaves. The text & plates are watermarked "J. Whatman 1821" Handsomely bound by Sangorski & Sutcliffe ca. 1960 in three-quarter dark blue morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine with five raised bands elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt in compartments, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. A fine well margined copy, of this series of devastating caricatures directed against the British monarchy, including the republication of the charges brought by the Attorney-General, Robert, Baron Gifford (1779-1826), against Queen Caroline and in support of the Pains and Penalties Bill of 1820 by which George IV, who had only just inherited the throne in 1820 and who hated his wife sought to remove her title and dissolve their marriage. The volume begins with a view of Humphrey's shop-window where 42 of these prints are on view. The focus of these caricatures is Caroline of Brunswick (1768-1821) and her alleged affair with Bartolommeo Bergami. She renamed him Pergami (as being more aristocratic) and appointed him Grand Master of the Order of St Caroline. Queen Caroline, on the whole, elicited a great deal of public support and as a result the Bill had to be subsequently abandoned. However, the following year, in July 1821, Caroline was barred from the coronation, fell ill, and died three weeks later. After the fall of Napoleon in 1815, George Cruikshank's attention was largely turned towards highlighting the decadence of Britain's Regency monarchy which was epitomised by George IV while still the Prince Regent. In this collection six of the plates are by George or Isaac Robert Cruikshank or both, the remainder are by Theodore Lane (1800-1828), a painter and engraver who frequently worked on sporting material, especially in partnership with Pierce Egan. It was after this period that George Cruikshank became progressively more sober and serious. This scarce collection of caricatures sharply lampooning Queen Caroline to delightfully deadly effect is not found in the British Museum. Indeed, BM Satires refers to the copy at the Bibliothéque National France, one of only six copies in institutional holdings worldwide. Theodore Lane (1800-1828) was a political lampoonist and in 1820 created a series of satirical images of Queen Caroline at the time of her return to England to claim her rights as consort to George IV. Lane caricatured the queen as a grotesque, overdressed and overweight, accompanied by her Italian lover, Bartolomeo Pergami and the then Lord Mayor of London, Matthew Wood. The Plates: 1. Design for a New Coat of Arms (Frontispiece) 2. Humphrey Printseller & Publisher. 3. Bergami's Little Darling. 4. A Pas de Deux or Love at First Sight. 5. The Choice of Hercules. 6. An Arm-Full of Love 7. The Como-cal Hobby. 8. Winding up to a pitch the Automaton Scaramouch, or Harlequin Courier's Delight 9. The Long & the Short of the Tale, - or, the whole of the concern. 10. Modesty! 11. The Modern Genius of History at her Toilet. 12. National Love! 13. Dignity! 14. A gentle jog into Jerusalem. 15. The Saint! 16. Tent-ation. 17. Installation of a Knight Companion of the Bath. 18. Travelling Tete à Tete!! 19. A R_Y_L Visit to a Foreign Capital or The Ambas. …

First Edition. "Acting is the Perfect Idiot's Profession" (Katherine Hepburn). "The Art of Acting Consists in Keeping People from Coughing" (Benjamin Franklin). EGAN, Pierce. LANE, Theodore, illustrator. The Life of an Actor. Dedicated to Edmund Kean, Esq. The Poetical Descriptions by T. Greenwood. Embellished with Twenty-Seven Characteristic Scenes, Etched by Theodore Lane. Enriched also With Several Original Designs on Wood, Executed by Mr. Thompson. London: Printed for C.S. Arnold, 1825. First edition. Royal octavo (9 3/4 x 6 1/8 in; 247 x 158 mm.). xvi, 272 pp. Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, woodcut vignette title-page, twenty-six fine hand-colored aquatint plates and eight woodcuts in the text. Bound ca. 1920 by Mercier Sr. de Cuzin (stamp signed on verso of front free endpaper) in three-quarter red morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spine elaborately tooled and lettered in gilt marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, others uncut. A spectacularly clean and large copy (Abbey's copy measured 9 3/8 x 5 3/4 inches) with the original printed paper covers and spine bound in. With the small leather bookplate of Bibliophile Réne Descamps-Scrive (1853-1925) on front blank. Originally published in nine parts, the work follows the vicissitudes of actor Peregrine Proteus, who quits his apprenticeship with a printer in a quest for thespian greatness. He achieves a modicum of success, falls prey to 'excesses and dissipation' and ends up in prison. Suitably chastened by adversity, he eventually rises, through his own character and talent - not to mention a fortunate matrimonial match and subsequent inheritance, to a position of eminence and prosperity in the theatrical community. The popular reception of Pierce Egan's Boxiana let to the serial publication of his famous Life in London, the success of which is described in the Dictionary of National Biography as "instantaneous and unprecedented', and the Life of an Actor is a derivative wok no doubt meant to capitalize on the popularity of its predecessors. It is the chief work of Theodore Lane (1800-1828), who subsequently produced illustrations for other books by Egan. The woodcut engravings by John Thompson (1785-1866) are highly esteemed by Abbey. "The book contains nine woodcuts. all by John Thompson, perhaps the ablest exponent of the style of wood-engraving; he cut, in 1839, Mulready's design for the penny postage envelope, and in 1852 designed the figure of Britannia still in use on Bank of England notes; he engraved on wood many designs of Grandville, Johannot &c. for the great Paris publishers." (Abbey). Tooley 195. Abbey, Life 414. Prideaux. p. 308. …