Item #41192 Seymour's Humorous Sketches Comprising Eighty-six Caricature Etchings. Illustrated in prose and verse, by Alfred Crowquill. With a descriptive list of the plates and biographical notice of Robert Seymour, including an account of his connexion with the Pickwick papers, by Henry G. Bohn. Robert. Crowquill Seymour, Alfred, pseud. Alfred Henry Forrest.
Seymour's Humorous Sketches Comprising Eighty-six Caricature Etchings. Illustrated in prose and verse, by Alfred Crowquill. With a descriptive list of the plates and biographical notice of Robert Seymour, including an account of his connexion with the Pickwick papers, by Henry G. Bohn.

Seymour's Humorous Sketches Comprising Eighty-six Caricature Etchings. Illustrated in prose and verse, by Alfred Crowquill. With a descriptive list of the plates and biographical notice of Robert Seymour, including an account of his connexion with the Pickwick papers, by Henry G. Bohn.

New York: George Routledge and Sons, 1878. xviii, 173 pp. Illus. with 86 b/w plates. 8vo. Modern three quarter red morocco over cloth boards, five raised bands, gilt decoration and rules, top edge gilt, with original cloth gilt covers and spine bound in, marble endpapers. Later edition. A very good copy with minor wear at extremities, small soiled spot on rear board, a few leaves with offsetting or soiling, otherwise clean. Westwood p.192. Item #41192

Fourteen of the sketches are on angling subjects and were originally issued between 1834 and 1836, transferred to steel by Henry Wallis and published with letterpress in 1838, and first printed with a memoir of Seymour in 1866.

Price: $150.00