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The Cruikshankian Momus. 'Let Momus rule the day'.
London : John C. Nimmo, 1892. Item #05661
The Cruikshankian Momus
With Fifty-Two Hand Colored Plates
[CRUIKSHANK, Isaac, Robert and George]. The Cruikshankian Momus. 'Let Momus rule the day'. Pictorial Broadsides and Humorous Song-Geadings. Fifty-two comic designs to popular ballads by the three Cruikshanks, the elder Isaac, Robert and the Great George. Colored by hand (After the Originals). London, John C. Nimmo, 1892.
Limited to five hundred and twenty copies of which this is no. 91.
Large octavo (11 1/8 x 7 1/4 inches; 282 x 184 mm.). [vii], [1, blank], [1]-136 pp. Fifty-two hand colored plates.
Publisher's dark blue cloth, front cover decoratively lettered in gilt, spine lettered in gilt, top edge gilt, others uncut.
Spine ends a little bumped otherwise a near fine copy.
Price: $275.00