The first nine handcoloured etched caricatures, all with contemporary wash colouring, each with a page of descriptive text, slight marginal fraying, but not affecting the printed image, slight spotting and staining, publisher's printed paper wrappers, lacking the rear cover and last few pages of text, oblong 4to, binding size 235 x 345 mm
Miller and Blackwood copied Gillray’s back-catalogue of engravings selling them in bound coloured volumes
Each volume contained 80 plates. This volume contains the first nine coloured plates of vol 1.
Complete works are very scarce.
The John Miller of London and William Blackwood edition of Gillray's caricatures was published between 1824 and 1827. It was one of four major posthumous editions of Gillray’s prints to have been printed during the first half of the nineteenth century, although it was the only one to have been produced using copied engravings rather than Gillray’s original copperplates. The caricatures were available to buy as individual images or in nine volumes. A tenth volume was started, but never completed..
