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WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy. The English Spy: An Original Work, Characteristic, Satirical, amd Humorous. London: Thomas Davison for Sherwood, Jones and Co., 1825-26.
2 volumes, 8o (235 x 148 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, woodcut plate "The Five Principal Orders of Society" and 70 hand-colored plates by Robert Cruikshank (68), Thomas Rowlandson (2), Thomas Wageman (1) and G.M. Brightly (1); 74 woodcuts in text. (Title and first text leaf in vol. I with margins renewed, small glue adhesion on verso of "The Cyprian's Ball" plate and facing text leaf E1 causing loss of two letters.) Later red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Zaehnsdorf (very light wear at extremities). Provenance: purchased through Seven Gables Bookshop, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 December 1972, lot 139.
FIRST EDITION, with plate 28 misprinted "1284" and page 222 in volume 2 blank. Of these points, often attributed to the "first issue," Abbey notes: "an examination of a considerable number of copies has failed to produce a single instance of any copy existing without these 'points' ... the fact remains that the existence of 'second issues' is problematical, one more instance of a printing oddity of no bibliographical value whatever" (Abbey Life 325). Tooley 504 ("'The Five Pillars of Society' is also rare"). FINE SET. (2)
2 volumes, 8o (235 x 148 mm). Hand-colored aquatint frontispiece, woodcut plate "The Five Principal Orders of Society" and 70 hand-colored plates by Robert Cruikshank (68), Thomas Rowlandson (2), Thomas Wageman (1) and G.M. Brightly (1); 74 woodcuts in text. (Title and first text leaf in vol. I with margins renewed, small glue adhesion on verso of "The Cyprian's Ball" plate and facing text leaf E1 causing loss of two letters.) Later red straight-grained morocco gilt, edges gilt, by Zaehnsdorf (very light wear at extremities). Provenance: purchased through Seven Gables Bookshop, Parke-Bernet, New York, 12 December 1972, lot 139.
FIRST EDITION, with plate 28 misprinted "1284" and page 222 in volume 2 blank. Of these points, often attributed to the "first issue," Abbey notes: "an examination of a considerable number of copies has failed to produce a single instance of any copy existing without these 'points' ... the fact remains that the existence of 'second issues' is problematical, one more instance of a printing oddity of no bibliographical value whatever" (Abbey Life 325). Tooley 504 ("'The Five Pillars of Society' is also rare"). FINE SET. (2)