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Cruikshank, Robert and Robert Seymour, Charles Dibdin and John Taylor. The publisher's front cover label is: The Comic Coronal, with Numerous Engravings on Wood by Robert Cruikshank and Robert Seymour. Eight Shillings and Sixpence. Inside, the full title: The Comic Coronal, or, Book of Merriment. With Numerous Illustrations on Wood by Robert Cruikshank and Robert Seymour. London: William Kidd, 228, Regent Street, and Sold by All Booksellers. Bound in the publisher's original brown cloth with a paper label on the front cover. Stamped gilt lettering on the spine. Front hinge cracked but still internally strong. 16 cm. 6mo. Interiors of the six volumes are in fine condition.
The title page for the first of six separately paginated volumes is: Walks About Town; a Poem, in Two Cantos, with Notes, and a Memoir of the Authors; by the Antiquated Trio. Illustrated with Three Engravings on Wood, after the Designs of Robert Cruikshank. Second Edition. London: Effingham Wilson, Royal Exchange. 1830. Please… Read More

London, : Samuel Roycroft, for Robert Clavell, 1691. Hardcover. Fair. Third edition. [1 blank; xvi; 1 244; lacks R3; 247 - 272; lacks T1; 275 - 416; 1 blank] In-8. Wing G 391. Dedication to the Right Hon. Earl of Nottingham, His Majesties Principal Secretary of State is signed G. dE. E.A.P. (Gabriel dEmilliane is generally accepted as the pseudonym of Antonio Gavin.) The first letter concerns Of Relicks, and the ill use that is made of them; the second Of the Corrupt, Ambitious, and Revengeful Spirit of the roman Clergy and The Inquisition is a ready means to satisfie their Cruelty and Revenge; the third, Of the Hospitals and Pilgrims in Italy. The Monks and Priests have converted the Revenues belonging to them, to their own use; the Fourth, Of Journeying to Loretto; the fifth, Of the Italian Festivals and Confraternities; the sixth, the deplorable Abuse of Preaching in Italy; the Seventh, Of the processions of Italy, and the eighth, the Corruption of Italian Priests and monks, in their Doctrin… Read More