Tom Thumb; a Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding by Kane O'Hara with Designs by George Cruikshank KANE O'HARA / GEORGE CRUIKSHANK Literature

(CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE) and KANE O'HARA. Tom Thumb; a Burletta, Altered from Henry Fielding by Kane O'Hara with Designs by George Cruikshank. London: Thomas Rodd, 1830. FIRST EDITION with the Cruikshank illustrations, FIRST ISSUE with pages 29/30 mis-numbered 21/22, 16mo, bound in red morocco with gilt rules and designs along edges, marbled end pages, original beige wraps bound in (front cover pictured). Contains 5 full-page woodcuts (including frontispiece) and 3 vignettes (front cover of original wraps, cover image repeated on title page, and on the last page of text). One-page ad in rear for the second edition of Cruikshank's Bombastes Furioso and other titles illustrated by Cruikshank. Only modest rubbing to gilt decoration, rear joint starting to split, nice, tight, bright copy. A perfect copy bibliographically speaking with pagination errors, ad present, and original wraps intact.