[Children's & Illustrated] [Cruikshank, George]

[Children's & Illustrated] [Cruikshank, George] (Collier, J.P.)
Tim Bobbin's Lancashire Dialect; and Poems
London: Hurst, Chance, and Co., 1828. First edition, india proof issue. 12mo. From the library of George Cruikshank bibliographer Albert M. Cohn, and with his book-plate on front paste-down; also from the libraries of William Hartmann Woodin, and with his book-plate on front paste-down of chemise, and Marshall R. Anspach, and with his book-plates on front paste-down and first free endpaper. Illustrated with frontispiece and one plate by Robert Cruikshank and four plates by George Cruikshank, all mounted proofs on india paper. Bound in full green cloth-covered boards, leather spine label in gilt; all edges trimmed; in red cloth-covered slipcase and chemise; two catalogue reference tickets mounted at top corner of chemise and front paste-down, as well as another typed label, presumably by Cohn and indicating the rarity of this volume as per its absence in other notable Cruikshank collections, mounted on chemise. Cohn 151.Rare edition, and as Cohn states in his bibliography, "one or two copies were issued with the plates taken on india paper. They are bound in green boards, with a leather label, and thus are of great rarity." (Cohn 151, p. 50)
William H. Woodin (1868-1934), American industrialist who served as Secretary of the Treasury in 1933 under Franklin D. Roosevelt.