CARICATURE PRINTS -- An album containting 66 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dighton (307 x 250mm) dated 1792-1812, 56 Vanity Fair prints by Ape, Spy and others, including caricatures of Darwin, Ruskin and Tyndall, and 24 hand-coloured plates from La Ménagerie Impériale (272 x 180mm), all mounted on 69 leaves (several leaves detached), 19th-century half roan (rubbed). Provenance: Barlborough Hall (bookplate)

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CARICATURE PRINTS -- An album containting 66 hand-coloured etched plates by Richard Dighton (307 x 250mm) dated 1792-1812, 56 Vanity Fair prints by Ape, Spy and others, including caricatures of Darwin, Ruskin and Tyndall, and 24 hand-coloured plates from La Ménagerie Impériale (272 x 180mm), all mounted on 69 leaves (several leaves detached), 19th-century half roan (rubbed). Provenance: Barlborough Hall (bookplate)

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