[Caricature. Splendid copy] Eccentric excursions or, Literary & pictorial sketches

of countenance, character & country, in different parts of England & South Wales. Interspersed with curious anecdotes. Embellished with upwards of one hundred characteristic & illustrative prints. By G. M. Woodward. London, Allen & West, 1796, IV,217,(1) p., with engraved title page, handcoloured frontispiece and 100 plates [plates 99-100 together on one leaf] by Isaac Cruikshank after Woodward (entirely per binder's index), all very finely handcoloured (several folding), beautifully bound in full morocco by Rivière & Son, boards with gilt borders on inside and outside, profusely gilt, ribbed back, all edges gilt, 4to.

Plate 3 torn in on fold, several plates trimmed sl. short; occ. very skilled repairs and occ. mild foxing. Splendid, brightly coloured copy from the library of Bob Luza, with his bookplate to inside front board. Luza's library was sold at auction in Amsterdam, December 1981; however, this work was surprisingly omitted from the auction catalogue. The rare first edition of this beautiful caricatural journey through England, organised by county (reissued in 1797, 1798, 1799, 1801, 1807, 1814, 1815, 1816 and 1818). It is the first and most famous work by George Moutard Woodward ("Mustard George", 1765-1809), caricaturist and friend of Thomas Rowlandson. The engraver Isaac Cruikshank (1764-1811) was a painter and caricaturist from Edinburgh, and father of the even more famous George Cruikshank.