Gaming.- Cruikshank (George).- Pigeons (The)...Showing the Artifices, Success, and Crimes of Gaming, Gamesters and Gambling Houses..., third edition, 6 hand-coloured etched plates by G. Cruikshank, sixth plate bound as frontispiece, [Cohn 648], for J.J. Stockdale, 1817, bound after Hoi Hell?nes [graece]. The Greeks: Being the Jeremiad of an Exiled Greek..., fifth edition, lacking advertisements at end, [cf. Cohn 365], for J.J. Stockdale, 1817, together 2 works in 1 vol., some light foxing, 19th century red half morocco over marbled boards, spine gilt, rubbed with some wear to extremities; and 3 others illustrated by Cruikshank, including seventh edition of The Greeks with hand-coloured plates, 8vo (4)
⁂ Cohn explains that "The first ten editions [of The Greeks] were without the plates, but many editions were subsequently issued with them, and the etchings on publication were issued separately, "Price one shilling only, to enable owners of the earlier editions to complete their Books" (advt.)". This appears to have been the case in the seventh edition copy included in the lot.
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