JERROLD, Blanchard. [George Cruikshank].
The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs.
New York: Scribner and Welford , 1882.
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First Edition of Blanchard Jerrold's The Life of George Cruikshank
First American edition of the definitive biography of famed illustrator and satirist George Cruikshank. Octavo, two volumes, bound in three-quarters early morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised bands, marbled endpapers, top edges gilt, tissue-guarded frontispiece, with black and white illustrations throughout. In very good condition.
Praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his lifetime, British caricaturist and book illustrator George Cruikshank was, for a time, England's most popular satirist. He illustrated numerous works for close friend Charles Dickens including Sketches by Boz (1836), The Mudfog Papers (1837–38) and Oliver Twist (1838). Cruikshank's early work was caricature; but in 1823, at the age of 31, he started to focus on book illustration. He illustrated the first, 1823 English translation (by Edgar Taylor and David Jardine) of Grimms' Fairy Tales, published in two volumes as German Popular Stories
The Life of George Cruikshank. In Two Epochs.
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