cover -- A27, addressed to W.H. Merle at Cheltenham with message inside signed by George Cruikshank (the famous Victorian artist and caricaturist who engraved for Dickens's sketches by Boz) and initialled on address panel, discussing certain "wood cut drawings", red Maltese Cross on front and initialled by sender, fine London c.d.s. of 25 May 1840 on reverse, two light creases do not detract. Photo