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History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798;

History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; by CRUIKSHANK, George; MAXWELL, William Hamilton

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Title
History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798;
Author
CRUIKSHANK, George; MAXWELL, William Hamilton
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
Description
London: Baily, Brothers, 1845. Cruikshank's etchings likewise have been hailed as the highest point in his invention and the most tragically terrible of all his graphic works" (Patten) CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. MAXWELL, W[illiam] H[amilton]. History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798; With Memoirs of the Union, and Emmett's Insurrection in 1803. By W.H. Maxwell, Esq. London: Baily, Brothers, 1845. First edition. Octavo (8 1/2 x 5 1/4 inches; 216 x 133 mm.). viii, [1]-477, [1, imprint] pp. Twenty one engraved plates by George Cruikshank and six full-page portraits. Contemporary full dark green morocco, covers ruled in gilt, spine with four raised bands decoratively ruled and lettered in gilt in compartments, gilt-ruled board edges and turn-ins, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Armorial bookplate "Brighton" on front paste-down. Corners slightly bumped - still an excellent copy. "The United Irishmen launched a full-fledged revolt against British rule in May 1798, but their fight was short-lived. The British and loyal Irish forces swiftly crushed the Irish Revolution. In just five months, the fighting left over 30,000 Irish men, women, and children dead, regardless of their loyalties." (Museum of the American Revolution). "No information survives about Cruikshank's commission to illustrate W. H. Maxwell's History of the Irish Rebellion in 1798. There is, therefore, no way of knowing what attracted Cruikshank to the subject, nor of ascertaining his own views on the rebels, the loyalists, and the British regulars who savagely put down a savage uprising. Conceivably the publisher, A. H. Baily, approached Cruikshank on the basis of the work he had done for them illustrating Barham's son's book, Martin's Vagaries, in 1843. Or they may have been inspired by his historical plates for Ainsworth, or by recalling etchings Cruikshank had made two decades previously for Ireland's Life of Napoleon. Baily's advertisement touts the "bold and graphic sketches descriptive of [the] most startling scenes," and those Cruikshank supplied in abundance: twenty-one full-page steels depicting bloody murders and riotous pillage that exercise his talents in narrative, theatrical tableaux, melodrama, and pathos. Maxwell's account is one of the earliest and most vivid; Cruikshank's etchings likewise have been hailed as the highest point in his invention and the most tragically terrible of all his graphic works. Several authorities have compared them to Goya's Disasters of War, and Thomas Wright judged the plates "equal, if not superior, to anything ever produced by Hogarth or by Callot." Cruikshank is unsympathetic to the rebels, giving them broad fat faces, staring eyes, and wide mouths in contrast to the patrician British; yet even in this propaganda for the established order he humanizes the peasants." (Patten II, pp. 210/211). William Hamilton Maxwell (1792-1850) was an Irish novelist. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin. He claimed to have entered the British Army and seen service in the Peninsular War and the Battle of Waterloo, but this is generally believed to be untrue. Cohn 541; Ogilby, British Military Costume Prints, 620.
Land Sharks and Sea Gulls

Land Sharks and Sea Gulls by CRUIKSHANK, George; GLASCOCK, William Nugent

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Land Sharks and Sea Gulls
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CRUIKSHANK, George; GLASCOCK, William Nugent
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
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London: Richard Bentley, 1838. With Six Fine Engraved Plates by George Cruikshank CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. GLASCOCK, Captain [William Nugent]. Land Sharks and Sea Gulls. By Captain Glascock, R.N. In Three Volumes. London, Richard Bentley, 1838. First edition. Three octavo volumes (7 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches 197 x 121 mm.). [iv], [1-3], 4-307, [1, imprint]; [ii], [1-3], 4-309, [1, imprint]; [ii], [1-3], 4-329, [1, imprint] pp. Six engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Late nineteenth century three quarter olive green morocco over marbled boards ruled in gilt. Spines with five raised band decoratively tooled and lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. With the engraved bookplate of George Shaw on each front paste-down. S[pine of volume I with some light chipping at head and tail, some light staining to top blank margins at end of volume III. A good set. William Nugent Glascock (c. 1787-1847) was an Irish officer in the Royal Navy and a novelist. He saw service during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and later in the years of relative peace. Glascock wrote a two-volume work, The Naval Sketch Book, or The Service Afloat and Ashore, published in 1826. This was followed by the three-volume Sailors and Saints, or Matrimonial Manœuvres in 1829, Tales of a Tar, with Characteristic Anecdotes in 1836, and the three-volume Land Sharks and Sea Gulls in 1838. He also wrote a two-volume work entitled Naval Service, or Officers' Manual, published in 1836. This useful manual for young officers passed through four editions in England. The last, published in 1859, had a short advertisement by Glascock's daughter, stating that "the work has been translated into French, Russian, Swedish, and Turkish, and adopted by the navies of those powers, as well as by that of the United States." Laughton remarked that the work was "of course, quite obsolete, though still interesting to the student of naval history and customs." Cohn 353; Wolff 2564; not in Sadleir.
Comic Blackstone, The

Comic Blackstone, The by CRUIKSHANK, George

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Comic Blackstone, The
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CRUIKSHANK, George
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David Brass Rare Books, Inc. (United States)
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1857. The Comic Blackstone CRUIKSHANK, George, illustrator. A'BECKETT. The Comic Blackstone. A New Edition. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. London, Bradbury and Evans, 1857. Two parts in one small octavo volume (6 5/8 x 4 1/8 inches; 169 x 105 mm.). xii, 252 pp. Engraved woodcut pictorial title-page and engraved woodcut illustration on last page. Bound by Zaehnsdorf ca. 1900 in three quarter dark blue calf over marbled boards, smooth spine decorated in gilt and with red morocco label lettered in gilt, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt. The first edition appeared in two parts in 1844-1846. There were several reissues in one volume from 1846 on. Cohn 1. (First edition).

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