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George Cruikshank. The Betting-Book. By George Cruikshank. With Cuts. Second Edition. London: W. & F. G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; [Successors to Charles Gilpin] and Sold by W. Tweedie, 337, Strand; George Gallie, Glasgow; and All Booksellers, 1852. 8vo; 5 woodcuts. Cohn 201. 31 numbered pages, verso of p. 31 has a half-page “note,” an anecdote about the fall of a young man in a good position, having succumbed to “the temptations offered by the Betting Offices.” This pamphlet came unsewn, and the cover and outer pages were taped with archival tape, not affecting either text on the back cover or the image on the front cover. The famous last woodcut, “The Tail of a Racehorse,” is a full-page image, with a five-line explanation. Fair condition.
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The Betting-Book By George Cruikshank With Cuts Second Edition 1852 Tail of a Racehorse
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The Betting-Book. By George Cruikshank. With Cuts. Second Edition. London: W. & F. G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; [Successors to Charles Gilpin] and Sold by W. Tweedie, 337, Strand; George Gallie, Glasgow; and All Booksellers, 1852. 8vo; 5 woodcuts. Cohn 201. 31 numbered pages, verso of p. 31 has a half-page “note,” an anecdote about the fall of a young man in a good position, having succumbed to “the temptations offered by the Betting Offices.”
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George Cruikshank. The Betting-Book. By George Cruikshank. With Cuts. Second Edition. London: W. & F. G. Cash, 5, Bishopsgate Street Without; [Successors to Charles Gilpin] and Sold by W. Tweedie, 337, Strand; George Gallie, Glasgow; and All Booksellers, 1852. 8vo; 5 woodcuts. Cohn 201. 31 numbered pages, verso of p. 31 has a half-page “note,” an anecdote about the fall of a young man in a good position, having succumbed to “the temptations offered by the Betting Offices.” This pamphlet came unsewn, and the cover and outer pages were taped with archival tape, not affecting either text on the back cover or the image on the front cover. The famous last woodcut, “The Tail of a Racehorse,” is a full-page image, with a five-line explanation. Fair condition.
Lottery Puff 1817 SIGNS To Be well observed before the 21st of JANUARY…
The Old Black Cock and His Dunghill Advisers in Jeopardy Political Satire of George IV Hand-Colored Cartoons 1820
The Constitutional Apple Pie Rhythmical Red-Book By Master Jacky Jingle 1820
Odds and Ends In Verse and Prose By William Henry Merle Esq Illustrated by George Cruikshank from Designs by the Author 1831
George Cruikshank’s The Gentleman in Black 1831
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