George Cruikshank’s Table-Book.
BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott [editor]. Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
George Cruikshank’s Table-Book.
First edition of George Cruikshank's Table-Book; elaborately bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son
London: Published at the Punch Office, 1845.
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First edition of George Cruikshank‘s Table-Book. Octavo, bound in full morocco by Riviere & Son with elaborate gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, triple gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, illustrated with 12 full-page etchings and 166 woodcuts by George Cruikshank. In near fine condition.
Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime, British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837–38) and Oliver Twist (1838). He also illustrated Memoirs of Joseph Grimaldi (1838), which Dickens edited under his regular nom de plume, "Boz". Cruikshank even acted in Dickens's amateur theatrical company.
