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The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett. by À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott - 1869: With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.

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The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett. by À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott - 1869

The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett.: With Illustrations by George Cruikshank.

by À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

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[Blackstone, William 1723 – 1780]. À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott; George Cruikshank. The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett. The Comic Blackstone by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett. With Illustrations by George Cruikshank. Chicago: Callaghan & Cockcroft, 1869. [xii; 13 – 376 pages] Full-page interlined frontispiece and full-page interlined plates at p. 112 and p. 288. Part II begins at p. 139, "Prologue to Part II." This is a Chicago ante-fire imprint, dating from before the Great Chicago Fire October 8 – 10, 1871. 23 cm. Bound in brown publisher's cloth with gilt title and publisher's initials mark on the spine in gilt. Head and tail of the spine are bumped.

This copy is signed and dated in ink on the verso of the frontispiece by C. Samuel Hoar 1845 - 1904 as "Samuel Hoar / Jan. 1, 1870." A lawyer, Samuel Hoar was the third child and oldest son of Ebenezer Rockwood and Caroline Brooks Hoar.

  • Bookseller G.Gosen Rare Books & Old Paper, ABAA, ILAB US (US)
  • Illustrator George Cruikshank
  • Format/Binding Brown publisher’s cloth with gilt title and publisher’s initials mark on the spine in gilt. Head and tail of the spine are b
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  • Publisher Callaghan & Cockcroft
  • Place of Publication Chicago
  • Date Published 1869
  • Pages 376
  • Size 23 cm
  • Keywords Blackstone, Cruikshank, Hoar, A Beckett, Law, English law, Humor
  • Size 23 cm

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THE COMIC BLACKSTONE; By Gilbert Abbott a Beckett / With Illustratins by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK
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THE COMIC BLACKSTONE; By Gilbert Abbott a Beckett / With Illustratins by GEORGE CRUIKSHANK

by a Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

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Chicago: Callahan & Cockcroft / Burton & Leonard Printers, 1869. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/None [Archival clear mylar cover added]. George Cruikshank. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated by George Cruikshank with fronispiece and several plates (most with tissue guards), brown-coated endpapers, xi, [xii] + 376 pages. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811 - 1856) was an English humorist.He edited the comic paper Figaro in London and was one of the original staff of Punch and a contributor until his death.<br/> <br/> He is perhaps best known as the author of The Comic History of England (1847-48), The Comic History of Rome (1852) and a Comic Blackstone (1846).<br/> <br/> George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) was a prominent British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His remembered for his always dynamic, telling, and frequently humorous book illustrations... among them many… Read More
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The Comic Blackstone / by Gilbert Abbott a Beckett ; with Illustrations by George Cruikshank

The Comic Blackstone / by Gilbert Abbott a Beckett ; with Illustrations by George Cruikshank

by A Beckett, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856). Cruikshank, George (1792-1878) , Illus

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London : Bradbury And Evans, 1856. The True 1st Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, calf-backec buckram. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 252 pages; Physical desc. : xii, 252 p : ill. ; 18 cm. This edition is without the frontis added to the later re-issue. Subject: Law - Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Referenced by: OCLC 12126179. Bound with Douglas Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures from the same year
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[Sammelband containing:] Beckett, Gilbert Abbott à. The Comic Blackstone. Part I - Of the Rights...
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[Sammelband containing:] Beckett, Gilbert Abbott à. The Comic Blackstone. Part I - Of the Rights of Persons. Philadelphia: Carey and Hart, 1844. Frontis., iv, [13] - 94 pp.; [with] Dempster, William R., composer. Dempster's Original Ballads Soirees. Boston: Printed by Dutton & Wentworth, 1847. [24] pp.; [with] Taylor, John, Esq., illustrated by Robert Cruikshank. Monsieur Tonson. London: Alfred Miller, Oxford Street, and Edinburgh: Constable and Co.,1830. 19 pp. [1], 6 plate engravings; [with] [Prize Committee]. Barnum's Parnassus; Being Confidential Disclosures of the Prize Committee of the Jennie Lind Song with specimens of the leading American Poets in the happiest effulgence of their genius. New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1850. [5], 52 pp

by Beckett, Gilbert Abbott a; Dempster, William R., composer; Taylor, John, Esq., illustrated by Robert Cruikshank; [Prize Committee]

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12mo sammelband, 3/4 green leather with marbled paper, gilt spine title. 4 imprints bound in. CONDITION: Very good, occasional foxing.
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