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James Cochrane & Co, 1831. Hard cover. Good/No jacket. Two volume set. First edition illustrated by Cruikshank. Gilt stamping on spines, metallic top edge of text blocks. Title plate on first volume has fallen off. Half leather (spine and corners); spines detached in some parts and loose, binding still strong. Ex libris plates on both inside front covers.

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. Two volumes complete - Volume One - [5], viii-xxiii, [2], 2-454pp and Volume Two - [5], 2-448pp. Contemporary half morocco, smooth back, with title and running title inside an attractive frame to spine, marbled sides, edges, and marbled endpapers. Rubbed to extremities, very slightly chipped to head caps. Internally an occasional hint of foxing, especially to frontispiece, some light off setting from engravings, but generally quite bright and clean. Armorial bookplate of Sir Timothy Eden to front pastedowns. With a portrait frontispiece after Hogarth, and eight engravings by George Cruikshank (as called for). In the 'Roscoe's Novelists Library' series. Cohn 705; Sadleir 3736a. First Thus. Hardback. Good. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 12mo.

London: James Cochrane and Co., 1831. Leather scuffed with loss to foot of spine of vol 2 and also loss to corner of front board. Corners bumped, boards rubbed. Some gutters cracked. Some light foxing here and there, else pp clean and bright.. Half Leather. Good Minus/No Jacket. Illus. by Cruikshank, George. 16mo.

London: James Cochrane and Co, 1831. Hardcover. Cruikshank engravings. pp. 454, 448. 12mo. Lovely two volume set bound in full tan polished calf. This is a complete set in itself, issued as part of 'The Novelist's Library', edited by Thomas Roscoe, and with illustrations by George Cruikshank. Titles from the set are usually encountered bound in cloth: our offering is most attractively bound in full polished calf, with a heavily-ornamented spine showing five raised bands and morocco spine labels. A frontispiece and four engravings in volume I; and a frontispiece and three engravings in volume II. All edges are marbled, as are the endpapers. The binding shows minimal wear, and the hinges are strong. Occasional foxing to text, more so from off-setting of the plates. Else in very good condition. Roscoe (1791-1871) was an English author and translator. He was educated by Dr. W. Shepherd and a private tutor, and began his career writing for local magazines and journals. During the period 1820 to 1850, he… Read More