CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). Autograph manuscript address book, [begun mid-1840s], heavily used, the addresses including Charles Dickens (at 1 Chester Place, an address he occupied briefly in 1847), W.M. Thackeray (3 addresses), John Ruskin, Hablot K. Browne (annotated 'The "Phiz"'), Robert Smirke senior, the publishers Bradbury and Evans, Lord John Russell, as well as collectors, tradesmen, lodgings, and many others, in at least one case noting a family of abstainers, sketch drawing of a palette on the front free endpaper annotated 'Wilkie's Palette  on the authority of Alexr Fraser who painted with Wilkie', 77 leaves, 8vo, original roan (worn, sprung), stationer's label of A.H. Baily & Co., red cloth slipcase. Provenance: William H. Woodin collection, New York -- his sale, Parke-Bernet, 6-8 January 1942, part 2, lot 238 -- Sotheby's New York, 14 December 1988, lot 11.
Lot 297 THE CRUIKSHANK COLLECTION

CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). Autograph manuscript address book, [begun mid-1840s], heavily used, the addresses including Charles Dickens (at 1 Chester Place, an address he occupied briefly in 1847), W.M. Thackeray (3 addresses), John Ruskin, Hablot K. Browne (annotated 'The "Phiz"'), Robert Smirke senior, the publishers Bradbury and Evans, Lord John Russell, as well as collectors, tradesmen, lodgings, and many others, in at least one case noting a family of abstainers, sketch drawing of a palette on the front free endpaper annotated 'Wilkie's Palette on the authority of Alexr Fraser who painted with Wilkie', 77 leaves, 8vo, original roan (worn, sprung), stationer's label of A.H. Baily & Co., red cloth slipcase. Provenance: William H. Woodin collection, New York -- his sale, Parke-Bernet, 6-8 January 1942, part 2, lot 238 -- Sotheby's New York, 14 December 1988, lot 11.

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CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878). Autograph manuscript address book, [begun mid-1840s], heavily used, the addresses including Charles Dickens (at 1 Chester Place, an address he occupied briefly in 1847), W.M. Thackeray (3 addresses), John Ruskin, Hablot K. Browne (annotated 'The "Phiz"'), Robert Smirke senior, the publishers Bradbury and Evans, Lord John Russell, as well as collectors, tradesmen, lodgings, and many others, in at least one case noting a family of abstainers, sketch drawing of a palette on the front free endpaper annotated 'Wilkie's Palette on the authority of Alexr Fraser who painted with Wilkie', 77 leaves, 8vo, original roan (worn, sprung), stationer's label of A.H. Baily & Co., red cloth slipcase. Provenance: William H. Woodin collection, New York -- his sale, Parke-Bernet, 6-8 January 1942, part 2, lot 238 -- Sotheby's New York, 14 December 1988, lot 11.