DARLY (MARY)
Darly's Comic-Prints of Characters, Caricatures, Macaronies &c., engraved title, 275 engraved plates on 119 leaves (2 folding, some one to a page, others two a page or three to a page), some light offsetting, one plate torn through but complete, bookplate of Lord Rendlesham, contemporary half calf, worn, folio, Mary Darly, January 1st 1776, sold as a collection of plates
Sold for
£9,000
inc. premium
Footnotes
- RARE. Not in the British Library, COPAC locates only two copies: one in the V & A, with 116 leaves of plates, and one in Oxford. APBC records only one copy sold in the last 31 years, in 1978, which apparently contained 286 caricatures on 132 leaves.
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