Tales of Humour, Gallantry and Romance, Selected and Translated from the Italian, with Sixteen Illustrative Drawings by George Cruikshank, Charles Baldwyn, London, 1824, 253pp, hardcover, 5.5 x 8", 12mo

Fair condition.  Wear and staining to front and rear boards.  Tips are bumped with exposed boards.  Joints are cracked.  Wear to spine.  Marginalia on front pastedown and flyleaf.  Provenance on front pastedown.  Toning, tea-staining, and age-staining throughout textblock.  Binding intact.  Illustrated.  Please see photos.

George Cruikshank (27 September 1792 - 1 February 1878) was a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life.  His book illustrations for his friend Charles Dickens, and many other authors, reached an international audience.  Cruikshank's early career was renowned for his social caricatures of English life for popular publications.