Punch and Judy, with illustrations designed and engraved by George Cruikshank. Accompanied by the dialogue of the puppet-show, an account of its origin, and of puppet-plays in England

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">8vo. pp 111, [1] (interspersed with ff. [24] (plates, some colored)). There are two copies in this collection. The first is in half morocco, with bookplates of Thomas Gaisford and Sir Charles Tennant. This volume is lacking "Criticisms" and first half title. The second copy, retained by the Freemans, is in morocco, with two states of the plates, plain facing colored. Title vignette repeats illustration on p. 28.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:11.5pt;">First edition of a published Punch and Judy script, illustrated by the well-known caricaturist George Cruikshank. The writer, John Payne Collier, claimed the script to be based on the version performed by the "professor" Giovanni Piccini in the early 19th century, and Piccini himself h