Item #1948 Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament. The Rev. R. Cattermole CATTERMOLE, B. D., Richard.
Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament
Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament
Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament
Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament
Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament

Cattermole's Historical Annual The Great Civil War of Charles 1st and the Parliament

London: Longman, Orme Brown, Green, & Longmans, 1841. George Catttermole. First Edition. Small 4to. Pp. viii, 288. Engraved title page. Frontis. engraving with tissue guard. Illustrated with six plates, with tissue guards. Bound in original blindstamped brown cloth with gilt decoration stamped on front cover, gilt lettering on spine.All edges gilt. Foxing to title page. Discreet, ubnobtrusive marginalia on a few pages. The name of a former owner is inked out on his small bookplate on the front pastedown, as is his written name on the front free endpaper. Old repairs to joints, which are starting, a couple nicks to cloth, corners worn. Good+. Item #1948

Despite detracting qualities, a well bound first edition of George Cattermole's engravings. Best known for his illustrations in Dickens' The Old Curiosity Shop and Barnaby Rudge, for which he received direction directly from Charles Dickens, George Cattermole collaborated with his brother Richard on historical "annuals," as they were known. They depicted significant chapters in British history, often presenting medieval, chivalric and other romantic themes. This was to be the first of a series, and the book ends noting it's the end of the first volume. Subsequent volumes published by Longman were perhaps abandoned, although the brothers were published by other houses.

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