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CRUIKSHANK, Percy. P. Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack for 1864, containing numerous Illustrations in Oil Colour Printing, useful Information, etc., etc. To be continued annually.
London: Read & Co, … [1863].
8vo, pp. [70], including the printed inner wrappers, with 12 satirical colour illustrations, each with a verse below, and numerous smaller engraved illustrations within the text; 14 pages of advertisements at front and rear (for books and toiletries); a very good copy in the original colour-printed wrappers (lettered ‘Percy Cruikshank’s Comic Almamack’), spine a little worn and chipped.
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CRUIKSHANK, Percy. P. Cruikshank’s Comic Almanack for 1864, containing numerous Illustrations in Oil Colour Printing, useful Information, etc., etc. To be continued annually.
A very rare colour-printed almanac by the nephew of George Cruikshank, apparently the first of a short series. The calendar pages are each accompanied by some ‘Notes of the Month’, and a jest at the foot, and commemorate recent events such as the burning of the Titian gallery at Blenheim, the Indian Mutiny, the introduction of new bankruptcy laws, and the death of Prince Albert. The illustrated verses include ‘An Appeal against the Income Tax’, and ‘Term Commences’, in which a man is squeezed by lawyers; and the other illustrations include some comic ‘Fashions for 1864’ and some offensive jokes on the US Civil War and Emancipation.
Percy Cruikshank had trained with his father Isaac Robert Cruikshank, and sometimes found work courtesy of his more famous uncle, whose own very popular Comic Almanack had been published from 1835 to 1853. He produced a number of books for Read & Co, including some panoramic books and the ‘untearable and washable children’s toy and story books’ advertised here.
OCLC records Harvard only; not in Library Hub, which shows later examples for 1865 (Bodley), 1866 (Manchester and BL), and 1869 (BL).
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