Lot 107
CRUIKSHANK - DICKENSMetal printing block after a design by Cruikshank, for "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" by Cruikshank and Charles Dickens, 1829; and other items, inc. John Leighton proof article (group)
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CRUIKSHANK - DICKENS
Metal printing block after a design by George Cruikshank, for use on the upper cover of "The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman" by Cruikshank, Charles Dickens and Thackeray, mounted on card, framed and glazed, image 85 x 80 x 5mm., [c.1839]--LEIGHTON (JOHN) The Library, Books and Bindings, Particularly with Regard to their Restoration and Preservation... read before the Society of Arts, Manufacturers, and Commerce on Wednesday Evening, February 23, 1859, "PROOF, PRIVATE" printed on drop-head title, 15pp. printed on recto only, 2 illustrations of bookcases, title age-soiled, corners frayed, stitched as issued, held in cloth portfolio with ink label ("Papers by John Leighton F.S.A., etc.") on upper cover, 4to, no place or publisher, [1859]--The Yelverton Marriage Case, illustrations, 3 additional pages (as examples of Yelverton book illustrations used in other books), loosely inserted, publisher's wrappers, held in cloth portfolio, with ink label "Example of the Illustration of Books in the 19th century. Selected by Robt. Leighton" on upper cover, 8vo, George Vickers, [1861]; and a small group of 20th century journals relating to printing, sold not subject to return (group)
Footnotes
A metal printing block, designed by George Cruikshank, for the pictorial upper gilt-blocked upper cover of The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman (Charles Tilt, 1839), "was the last collaboration of Dickens and Cruikshank. Cruikshank had heard a cockney version of this traditional ballad sung outside a public house, and repeated it to Dickens. Dickens touched it up and added some facetious notes for the published version, which Cruikshank illustrated with a series of jaunty etchings, over which Dickens was unusually enthusiastic" (V & Museum, website). The John Leighton lecture is scarce, with no copies traced.