George Cruikshank. His Life and Work as a Book Illustrator by Ruari McLean - 1948

New York: Pellegrini & Cudahy, 1948. This is a very good hardcover copy in a good only dust jacket. The jacket is virtually all there, but soiled. Endpapers browned, otherwise clean inside. Essay by Ruari McLean. Illustrated throughout in black & white. List of books illustrated by Cruikshank. No date but ca. 1948. 9" high X 7" wide, 100 pages. . Hard Cover. Very Good/Good.

New York: Pellegrini and Cudahy, 1948. First U.S. . Hard. Very Good/Very Good. Apparent first U.S. printing of this entry in the "English Masters of Black-And-White". Cruikshank illustrated any number of classics, including Dickens, Harriet Beecher Stowe, and Washington Irving. This slim voliume focuses on his long life and career, with many reproductions of his art. Brown cloth with gilt lettering to spine, tan jacket. Very Good (slight lean to spine, a little yellowing of pages) in a VG jacket (no tears, some soil evident). Not price clipped ($2.50). A touch of paste residue to front flap and first FFEp pasted to front board.

Art and Technics, Art and Technics. 1948, 100pp. Illustrated. Cloth. In good condition.

Book. Good. Binding see description. London, 1948. 100pp. Richly illus. in b/w. Cloth. (English Masters of Black-and-White). 0.

London: Art and Technics, 1948. First Edition, First Impression . Cloth Bound Boards. Very Good/Good. George Cruikshank. 1948 First edition, first impression. Size square octavo, 100 pages including appendix. Brown cloth covered boards with gilt titles to the spine, with the dust jacket. Book condition very good, corners and spine ends slightly rubbed offsetting to end-papers, a few spots to end-papers else contents clean. Dust jacket condition good, corners and edges rubbed and chipped, spine rubbed and chipped with loss of a few pieces, spine sunned, not price clipped. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall