CRUIKSHANK GEORGE: (1792-1878) British Caricaturist & Book Illustrator, associated with the works of...

CRUIKSHANK GEORGE: (1792-1878) British Caricaturist & Book Illustrator, associated with the works of his friend Charles Dickens. Manuscript D.S., Geo. Cruikshank, in the third person, at the head, one page, oblong 8vo, n.p., 5th August 1835. The document is in the form of an invoice made out to Messrs. Blackwood & Sons for 'Designing & Etching 8 subjects to illustrate ..at 6 Guineas each', totalling £50.8.0. Neatly inlaid and with some very light, extremely minor creasing to the edges, otherwise VG William Blackwood & Sons was a Scottish publishing house and printer founded by William Blackwood in 1804. It played an important role in literary history publishing works by many significant authors including George Eliot, Anthony Trollope, Joseph Conrad and E. M. Forster, both in books and the monthly Blackwood's Magazine.