Three Courses and A Dessert. By William Clarke. The Decorations by George Cruikshank. London: Vizetelly, Branston & Co., 1830. 2nd ed. 8vo. 432pp., 5 wood engravings w/ tissues, 47 sm text illust. Bound in 1/4 deep brown morocco, brown linen backed bds. Covers rubbed, inside binding slightly fragile at rear cover, some discoloration & spotting internally, previous owner's name J. Mellor, Leeds in brown ink to ffe, else intact. Fair+. In the Second Course, Clarke writes in Irish dialect in The Neighbors of an Old Irish Boy, and describes "The Little Black Porter" in the Third Course, with Cruikshank's illustration of a West-Indian man on board ship, discovered in large trunk. |