£1,500
A Regency scrapbook of caricatures and other decorative prints, late 18th - early 19th c, filled with various engravings, etchings and lithographs, the caricatures by G Cruickshank, G Humphrey and others in fresh contemporary colour, etchings by George Cuitt, a series of portraits of actors, including Liston and Kean, L L Boilly heads, distinguished women (Elizabeth Fry, Madam de Stael, Peg Woofington and many others), British topography, ruins and romantic scenery, miniature prints, dwarves and curiosities, royalty, Napoleon, The Pig Pye Man, foreign personalities, British authors, artists, peers and politicians, scientists, admirals, series of picturesque views of the Isle of Wight and Hampshire, Bristol, foreign costumes, Calves' heads and brains all in phrenological picture, several watercolours, etc, neatly mounted one or many more to a leaf, recto and verso (25 x 35cm), later label on pastedown inscribed For W Morton Philips [signed] E.L.P. Ap. 21 [19]08, contemporary half calf over marbled boards, worn, boards detached
An exceptionally pleasing collection offered intact
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