A Comic Alphabet by Cruikshank, George - 1836

Arts Council of Great Britain. Used - Good. Good condition. Reprint. Folded accordion style. (drawing, caricatures, cartoons, alphabet) [ISBN 0728700131] A copy that has been read but remains intact. May contain markings such as bookplates, stamps, limited notes and highlighting, or a few light stains.

London, U.K: National Touring Exhibitions (Hayward Gallery), 1999. Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by George Cruikshank. 16mo - over 5¾" - 6¾" tall. Softback.

UK: The Arts Council of Great Britain. Reprint of 1836 Edition. Brown soft card covers with black titles and illustrations Creases to cover edges. Sticker mark to front cover. . Colour illustrations. Interior very good and clean. . Soft Cover. Very Good. Illus. by The Author. 24mo - over 5" - 5¾" tall.

[London]: Arts Council of Great Britain. Soft cover. Near Fine. 3.75" x 5.5" Reprint, n.d., [ca. 1970 or later per presence of an ISBN number]. Soft cover. Unpaged, accordion folds. [24] unnumbered coloured engravings. Light bumping to edges, else fine. 0.

Arts Council GB. Paperback. Very Good. in x in x in. Arts Council GB undated edition. Pages clean and bright, binding firm, minor shelf wear to cover.

Leporello. Hardcover. Box. . Fine. N.d., but an early 20th century restrike of the 1836 original, with bright hand-coloring. Other than the freshness of the paper pastedown on the boards and the outer box which clearly was not the sort issued with a book in the early 19th century, this copy could pass for an exceptionally well-preserved copy of the original. 13.5 by 9 cm. 24 panels, mostly humorous and lightly satirical, but also a few with a more sentimental quality. The front cover resembles the original perfectly, stating "Designed Etched & Published by George Cruikshank No 23 Myddelton Terrace Pentonville 1836" just as the true first edition did, and the back cover headed by a "T", for "Tilt, 86 Fleet Street", the original publisher, and an etching presumably of Tilt himself at his shop. This is NOT the facsimile issued by the Arts Council of Great Britain in the 1970s! The outer box has wear, with one edge of the lower part missing.

Pentonville (London): George Cruikshank, 1837. 24mo. 2nd edition, with the 1836 date on the front cover and 1837 hiding in a background poster on the rear cover. Published as a paperback with black and white engraved covers and 24 hand-colored engraved plates on a single sheet folded accordion style. This example was rebound in full brown leather during the 19th century by Pomey, who has been described variously as a noted Parisian bookbinder or as an English binder. Both covers are intricately tooled in gilt & black and feature gilt letters of the alphabet around the borders. Covers are bound in. Everything about this book shouts that it is the work of famed British caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1878). Ostensibly a children's book (like most alphabet books), its themes, language, even the jokes clearly are aimed at adults. As he was wont to do, Cruikshank focused the alphabet on problems in British society: for example, E for Equality shows a typical upper crust dandy strolling… Read More

London: George Cruikshank,, 1836. Cruikshank teaches the alphabet First edition, first issue (reissued coloured in 1837, and again without a date by Tilt and Bogue). A scarce and charming Cruikshank publication, produced to aid children in learning the alphabet, illustrated in Cruikshank's instantly recognisable style. Sextodecimo. Original boards, rebacked with original spine laid down, printed decorative title to front cover and portrait of the bookseller Charles Tilt to rear cover. Fold-out sheet of letters, each with a word and vignette by Cruikshank. Early ownership signature to front pastedown. Light rubbing to binding, still a fresh copy of a fragile volume, the contents clean without repair to folds, small chip at foot of final leaf. A very good copy. Cohn 149; Osborne II, 677.