Description: I have here for sale a scarce book entitled SEYMOUR'S HUMOROUS SKETCHES comprising Ninety-Two Caricature Etchings. Illustrated in prose by R B Peake. It is a first edition published in 1846 by George Routledge, London. Illustrated and plain title pages. Bound in its original gilt embossed maroon hardboards. Robert Seymour (1798-1836) was a popular and prolific illustrator and satirical cartoonist specializing in sporting subjects. "Influenced by the work of caricaturist George Cruikshank (1792-1878), Seymour gave up a career as a draftsman to devote himself to illustration, beginning under the pseudonym Short Shanks. By 1830, his political caricatures were widely circulated through the satirical journals Figaro in London and The Looking-Glass, or McLean's Monthly. Highly strung and extremely sensitive about his status as an artist, Seymour was emotionally and mentally unstable, having suffered a nervous breakdown in 1830. Despite the enormous output of Seymour, very little of his work was coloured, his illustrations being mostly woodcuts or etchings. It will be remembered that Seymour originated the idea of a series of Cockney sporting sketches to be published in monthly parts. The idea was taken up by Chapman and Hall, who engaged Dickens to write the letterpress. From this grew the famous Pickwick Papers". However, he and Dickens fell out over the illustrations and the idea of the book which had strayed from Seymour's original idea, and shortly before publication he took his own life. Bound in maroon cloth hardboards with blind stamped patterning. Gilt image to the centre of the front board. Gilt decoration and lettering to the spine. Bumps and chips to the board edges and some wear to joints. Corners bumped. Foxing here and there, all plates are tissue guarded. Binding firm. 104 pages of text plus the 92 plates. 26 x 16 cm. We have over 2000 items in our Ebay shop on a range of subjects, so please feel free to have a browse and see if anything else takes your fancy. Postage will be by Air Mail outside of UK. If you buy more than one item then the postage cost falls for the second and further items as I will put them into one parcel - so you save money. We wrap and post the parcels on Monday and Tuesday - therefore if you pay before midday on Tuesday we will get it in the postal sacks on Tuesday night, and if it is after that time then it will go into the postal service on the following Monday.
Price: 119.99 GBP
Location: Whitegate, Cheshire
End Time: 2025-01-16T12:09:14.000Z
Shipping Cost: 44.99 GBP
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Return postage will be paid by: Buyer
Returns Accepted: Returns Accepted
After receiving the item, your buyer should cancel the purchase within: 30 days
Binding: Cloth
Personalised: No
Non-Fiction Subject: The Arts
Signed: No
Publisher: GEORGE ROUTLEDGE
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1846
Language: English
Illustrator: ROBERT SEYMOUR
Special Attributes: 1st Edition, Illustrated
Fiction Subject: Humour
Region: Europe
Original/Reproduction: Original
Author: R B PEAKE
Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
