Brough's Life of Sir John Falstaff Extra-Illustrated with Twenty Colored Etchings by George Cruikshank 1858
This is a unique copy, with the bookplate of Stephen George Holland. A very fine copy. A personalized variant of Cohn 96. Prior booksellers’ descriptions tipped in.
This is an untrimmed copy, bound in full blue morocco by Rivière, with the original “red cloth gilt covers” and the original front cover of the wrapper of the extra large-paper plates bound in in the back after plate number 20.
Brough's Life of Sir John Falstaff Extra-Illustrated with Twenty Colored Etchings by George Cruikshank 1858
This is an untrimmed copy, bound in full blue morocco by Rivière, with the original “red cloth gilt covers” and the original front cover of the wrapper of the extra large-paper plates bound in in the back after plate number 20.
Brough, Robert B., The Life of Sir John Falstaff. London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1858. First edition. Imperial 8vo, 25 cm x 17 cm, [xx; 196], [2 blanks; double frontispiece, the second hand-colored; title page; quote from Henry IV, Part 2, with reproduction of woodcut from cover of Part I; dedication dated March 27, 1858; preface; contents; list of plates; text begins with B1].
This copy has 20 large-paper etchings plus a duplicate set of 20 hand-colored large-paper etchings by George Cruikshank bound in next to the uncolored etchings. This is an untrimmed copy, bound in full blue morocco by Rivière, with the original “red cloth gilt covers” and the original front cover of the wrapper of the extra large-paper plates bound in in the back after plate number 20. This is a unique copy, with the bookplate of Stephen George Holland. A very fine copy. A personalized variant of Cohn 96.

Brough’s Life of Sir John Falstaff Extra-Illustrated with Twenty Colored Etchings by George Cruikshank 1858

$2,500.00

This copy has 20 large-paper etchings plus a duplicate set of 20 hand-colored large-paper etchings by George Cruikshank bound in next to the uncolored etchings. This is an untrimmed copy, bound in full blue morocco by Rivière, with the original “red cloth gilt  covers” and the original front cover of the wrapper of the extra large-paper plates bound in in the back after plate number 20. This is a unique copy, with the bookplate of Stephen George Holland.

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Brough, Robert B., The Life of Sir John Falstaff. London:  Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts. 1858. First edition. Imperial 8vo, 25 cm x 17 cm, [xx; 196], [2 blanks; double frontispiece, the second hand-colored; title page; quote from Henry IV, Part 2, with reproduction of woodcut from cover of Part I; dedication dated March 27, 1858; preface; contents; list of plates; text begins with B1]. This copy has 20 large-paper etchings plus a duplicate set of 20 hand-colored large-paper etchings by George Cruikshank bound in next to the uncolored etchings. This is an untrimmed copy, bound in full blue morocco by Rivière, with the original “red cloth gilt  covers” and the original front cover of the wrapper of the extra large-paper plates bound in in the back after plate number 20. This is a unique copy, with the bookplate of Stephen George Holland. A very fine copy. A personalized variant of Cohn 96. Prior booksellers’ descriptions tipped in.

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Brough, Robert B
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Brough's Life of Sir John Falstaff Extra-Illustrated with Twenty Colored Etchings by George Cruikshank 1858

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