THE FOUR GEORGES: Sketches of Manners, Morals, Court, and Town Life

London Smith, Elder & Co., 1861. 8vo., publisher's bright green cloth with an all-over blind-embossed design on both covers; spine titled in gilt. Preserved in a quarter morocco clamshell case.FIRST EDITION. The book was based on a series of lectures on Kings George I-IV and their times, delivered by Thackeray in the United States and London, which were printed in Cornhill Magazine. This copy belonged to Albert M. Cohn, the bibliographer and noted collector of the work of George Cruikshank. It is difficult to imagine a nicer copy. Van Duzer 70. EXCEPTIONALLY FINE—WITH ALBERT M. COHN'S EX-LIBRIS