GILLRAY (JAMES)


The Works... from the Original Plates, with the Addition of Many Subjects Not Before Collected, bound in 2 vol. (including the "Suppressed Plates"), large woodcut vignette on title, engraved frontispiece portrait, 632 engraved plates (numbered 1-582, bis nos. 100, 207, 379, 379** and 379***, 2 plates numbered 86, without a plate 238 as issued; 45 supplementary plates), up to 4 images per page recto and verso, short tear touching image of plate 86/88, front free endpaper of the supplementary volume loose, contemporary maroon half morocco gilt, g.e., slight abrasion to spine bands but generally very clean, folio (640 x 490mm.), Henry G. Bohn, 1847
|Includes the volume of "suppressed plates", sexually suggestive or scandalously offensive political images which the publisher chose to exclude from the main collection.Provenance: William Ogilvy Dalgleish of Errol (1832-1913), bookplate.