Comedy, Satire, Burlesque from

London: Bradbury & Evans, [1849]. First edition. Good +. Oblong (280 x 225 cm); [42] leaves and 40 full-page illustrated plates. Title in red and black. In half red crushed morocco over blue marbled paper boards. Doyle's passerine monogram on spine and on upper board. Red leather title label on upper board. All edges… Read more about this item

Bassano del Grappa: Remondini, ca 1710. Fine. 1 leaf, 34 x 22 cm. Two images, each within palm-frond borders, and each underscored with six-line legends in verse. "In Bassano, per il Remondini" in lower center frame. Matted and protected by mylar guard. References: Alberto Milano, "Le Ventole," in Remondini: Un editore del settecento, pp.… Read more about this item

Italia: n.p., 1835. Very Good. 19 cm; 20 pages (three blank), including 7 full-page illustrations with captions. Text and illustrations lithographed throughout. Bound in (later?) plain wraps. Not in Melzi. No copies located. Apparently unrecorded booklet with text and illustrations produced completely in lithograph. The text reproduces an italic calligraphy that must have… Read more about this item

London: Scott, Webster, & Geary, 1841. Very Good. 12mo (14 cm); xviii, 423 pages, engraved frontispiece and extra engraved title page. Half-title present. Bound in half green pebbled leather over marbled boards. Marbled edges. Edges a little scuffed, some discoloration to marbled boards. Contents clean and bright.

Paris: Beauger et Cie; Lith Coulon et Cie, n.d. (about 1850). Acceptable. 35 cm; Lithographed title page and 40 full-page lithographed plates with captions. Bound in plain black morocco with leather backstrip decorated in gilt. Head and tail worn with loss. Corners and edges worn with some fraying. Light scattered foxing. One of the… Read more about this item

Paris: Chez Aubert, 1839-40. First edition. 27 cm; 3 volumes in two. 150 lithographs, including 45 by Daumier (among them 27 from "Croquis d'expression") and 42 by Gavarni. Half titles present. Plates not colored in. Bound in recent green crushed morocco over marbled boards, ruled in gilt; spines titled in gilt. Marbled edges. Endleaves… Read more about this item

London: The Haymarket Press, 1928. Very Good. Quarto (26 cm); xxi, 79, [2] pages. Frontispiece drypoint etching by Arthur Ralph Middleton Todd (1891-1966), signed in pencil. Bound in original quarter-leather over marbled velvet cloth boards. Edition limited to 875 copies, numbered in ink (this copy #302). Minor wear to covers. Congreve's arch and… Read more about this item

London: Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858. First edition thus. Very Good. 26 cm; xx, 196 pages, and 20 plates "drawn and etched by George Cruikshank." Bound in half polished brown morocco over marbled boards, with title and decorations stamped in gilt on spine and gilt rules on boards, by P.B. Sanford. Marble endleaves; top… Read more about this item

Amsterdam: Chez Henry Desbordes, 1685. Nouvelle éd. enrichie de tailles-douces. . Leather. Very Good. 12mo (17cm); 2 volumes in one. Engraved frontispiece, 58 half-page etchings by Romeyn de Hooghe. Woodcut ornaments. Bound in contemporary dark green grained morocco, rebacked a hundred years ago. Original spine intact. Old repairs recently strengthened and reinforced. Marbled endleaves; gilt edges. Covers somewhat worn but… Read more about this item

London: S. Prowett, 1828. Second edition. Leather. Good. 21 cm; [2], 141, [7] pages, frontispiece portrait of "Mr. Punch" and 23 plates by Cruikshank. Title page illustration and tail-pieces in text after Cruikshank. Bound in half morocco over marbled paper-covered boards, ruled in gilt. Spine titled and tooled in gilt. Moderate wear to corners and edges.… Read more about this item

Paris: H. Simonis Empis, [1893]. First edition, limited to 75 copies on Chine, this being #14, signed in pencil by the artist.. Hard Cover. Good. Folio (42 cm); [4] leaves and [50] printed plates of Fourain's cartoons. Original hand-tinted wraps bound in. Upper wrap loose. Many plates with English translation of caption supplied in ink… Read more about this item

New York: December 9, 1939. Very Good. 28 cm; 1 page on Burgess's monogramed letterhead, to "Hughes," signed with monogram in ink. 43 lines, including salutations and four quatrains of verse. Usual folds, toned at edges. Two closed tears along top edge. Letter discussing the theoretical template for nonsense verse from the author of one of… Read more about this item

Milano: Giovanni Silvestri, 1826. Very Good. 17 cm; 91, [1] pages, and engraved portrait of Gozzi by Ester Silvestri. Bound in original printed wraps. Unopened, untrimmed. Pages still bright and clean. Shelf wear only.

Paris: P. Jannet, 1853. Cloth. Good . 12mo; 17 cm., lv, 340, ads., Red cloth, stamped in blind, titled in gilt on spine., Water stains along bottom edge of casing; some spotting in text., One of the great wits of his age, Regnier wrote satires in alexandrines after the manner of Horace and Juvenal. No less an authority… Read more about this item

London: Printed by W. Bulmer and Co., for J. Wright, 1799. Good. 8vo (22 cm); 3, xlviii, 189 pages. Title page with engraved portrait vignette. Bound in contemporary full birdseye calf decorated in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Binding rather rubbed and worn, cracked at joints but holding. Spine ends perishing. Owner's autograph on title page (Sir Alex Bannerman, 1818),… Read more about this item

Paris: Didot, 1812. Second edition. Bound in contemporary mottled pink paper-covered boards, worn. . Very Good. 31cm; xiii, [i], 85 pages. Title and text in French and Italian on facing pages. Bridgewater arms stamped in red on both title pages; Egerton arms stamped in red at head of appendix (a survey of critcism on Comus).… Read more about this item

Florence: G. Barbera,, 1863. Collezione Diamante. Very Good. in-48 (11cm); xvii, [1], 461, [3] pages, and steel engraved portrait frontispiece with tissue guard. Bound in original publisher's wraps. Bookplate. Shelf wear, corners bumped, but no frays, tears or stains. References: Annali bibliografici, #135; Parenti, Rarità bibliografiche, #52. The comic poet Francesco Berni is… Read more about this item

New York: The Macmillan Company, 1903. Very Good. 17 cm; 95, [1], 4, [4] pages (last 2 pages blank), and 3 plates. Bound in original green cloth stamped with an illustration of two figures riding a buggy. Price sticker removed from front free endpaper. Very slightly stoop-shouldered, with a bit of a sunburn on the spine, this is… Read more about this item

London: Punch, 1845. First Edition in book form. Good. Octavo (24 cm); viii, 284 pages, Extra pictorial title page, and 12 full-page steel engravings. Many in-text woodcuts. Edited by Gilbert Abbott a'Beckett. In first binding. Enpapers renewed. Few plates repaired at margins. Front joint tender and starting. Occasional foxing and stains. Plates bound out of order.… Read more about this item