Accession number
PML 129302
Creator
Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878.
Published
[London] : Bell & Daldy, York Street, Covent Garden, [1872]
Credit line
Gift of Frederick R. Koch, 1981.
Notes
"These letters, with the well-known pamphlet (16 p.), and the 89 plates, constitute some of the main links in the chain of events that led to the Cruikshank-Ainsworth estrangement."--Booksellers' description laid in at front.
3 autograph letters by Cruikshank and Ainsworth removed, written before the incident of the "Times" correspondence. These are: MA 4379, MA 4380, and MA 4381.
Authors' presentation copy inscribed over caption title: "To Edwin Canton Esq. With the kind regards of Geo. Cruikshank."
Caption title.
In this pamphlet, Cruikshank claims to have been the originator of Dickens's Oliver Twist as well as of Ainsworth's The miser's daughter and The tower of London.
With Christies, NY, sale ticket laid in, dated Feb. 6, 1981, lot 77/1.
3 autograph letters by Cruikshank and Ainsworth removed, written before the incident of the "Times" correspondence. These are: MA 4379, MA 4380, and MA 4381.
Authors' presentation copy inscribed over caption title: "To Edwin Canton Esq. With the kind regards of Geo. Cruikshank."
Caption title.
In this pamphlet, Cruikshank claims to have been the originator of Dickens's Oliver Twist as well as of Ainsworth's The miser's daughter and The tower of London.
With Christies, NY, sale ticket laid in, dated Feb. 6, 1981, lot 77/1.
Description
1 v. (various) : ill., plates ; 22 cm
Provenance
From the Marjorie Wiggin Prescott Collection (lot 77 Cf. ticket); Ex libris William Clyde Wilkins; Ex libris Jerome Kern (green leather bookplate); and Ex libris Albert Henry Wiggin (bookplate).
Binding
Half green levant morocco, gilt tooled back, gilt edges, decorative endpapers.
Classification
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