James Gillray Information.
A selection of Gillray's works appeared in James Gillray: The Caricatures printed between 1818 and the mid-1820s and published by John Miller, Bridge Street and W. Blackwood, Edinburgh. Nine parts were released and if on the better paper is indistinguishable from the McLean so all will be labelled as McLean if on quality rag paper
The next edition was Thomas McLean's, which was published with a key, in 1830 and is in my mind the best posthumous edition being on superb paper with margins and less tendency to self destruct through time. Again form uncut / unrestored plates
In 1851 Henry George Bohn put out an edition, from the original plates in a handsome elephant folio, with coarser sketches—commonly known as the "Suppressed Plates"—being published in a separate volume. For this edition Thomas Wright and Robert Harding Evans wrote a commentary, a history of the times embraced by the caricatures. Many copies of the Bohn Edition have been broken up into individual sheets and passed off as originals (the number in many was removed chemically). Although the two volumes of the Bohn Edition are often represented as being a complete collection of Gillray's works, this is not the case: for example, 'Doublûres of Characters' is not included in either volume. This is most likely because this print was not published by Hannah Humphrey, but by John Wright for the Anti-Jacobin Review and Magazine Many of the plates appear to have not been recut as the quality can be very patchy showing a worn plate.
The next edition, entitled 'The Works of James Gillray, the Caricaturist: with the Story of his Life and Times' (Chatto & Windus, 1874), was the work of Thomas Wright, and introduced Gillray to larger public. This edition, which is complete in one volume, contains two portraits of Gillray, and upwards of 400 illustrations.
The majority of the plates for sale are from; :- Historical and Descriptive Account of the Caricatures of James Gillray Comprising a Political and Humorous History of the Latter Part of the Reign of George the Third by Thomas Wright and R. H. Evans London: Henry G. Bohn, 1851 Between 1845 and 1851, Henry Bohn published editions of Gillray's works from Gillray's original plates. Over 600 numbered plates were printed back-to-back in two giant atlas folio volumes. . .a good tint ie they date from 1845/51. The third volume was the 'suppressed or gentleman's prints not for ladies viewing etc and as such much scarcer .. . all where possible with a historical description/translationTHIS IS A LIST OF WHAT WAS PRINTED FOR THOSE CURRENTLY AVAILABLE PLEASE
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Plate Number 1.Paddy on Horseback
2 .Banco to the Knave
3 Rodney introducing De Grasse
4 St. George and the Dragon
5 The Church Militant
6 Irish Gratitude
7 Guy Vaux
8 The Jubilee
9-12 The W_ST_R Just-Asses A Braying\ The V___ Committee Framing a Report\ Gloria Mundi, \The Lord of the Vineyard
13-17 Judge Thumb\Jack A Both Sides\War.Neither War Nor Peace!\ Ahithophel in the Dumps
18-20 A New Way to Pay the National Debt\ Honi Soit Qui Mal y Pense \Anticipation, or the Approaching Fate...
21-23 A Noble Lord, on an Approaching Peace\ The Board of Controul... Ancient Music
24 -25 Monstrous Craws at a New Coalition\ A March to the Bank
26-29 Black Dick Turner Tailor\ There's More Ways Than One\ Dido Forsaken\ Amsterdam in a Dam'd Predicament
30-32 Blood on Thunder Fording the Red Sea\ The Political Banditti Assailing... \ Wife or No Wife...
33-35 The Morning after Marriage\ Questions and Commands\ The Westminster Hunt
36-38 Market Day \ Election Troops\A Pig in a Poke
39 State Jugglers
40 The Visit to Piccadilly...
41 The Vulture of the Constitution
40,42-43 Lord Chancellor Thurlow\ The Bow to the Throne
44-49 John Bull Baited by the Dogs\ Smelling Out A Rat\ The Landing or Sir John Bull \ The Funeral Procession of Miss Regency\ Bandelures\ Barbarites in the West Indies (Triple-fold)
50-52 Lieutenant-Governor Gallstone Inspired\ Taming of the Shrew\ The Impeachment
53-55 \ Guy Vaux Discovered\ The Rights of Man The National Assembly Petrified
56-57 Alecto and her Train\ The Hopes of the Party
58-61 A Birmingham Toast\ An Excrescence - A Fungus...\ The Soldier's Return\ The Introduction
62 The York Minuet
63 The York Reverence
64 French Democrats Surprising...
65 The Knave Wins All...
66-69 Frying Sprats \Toasting Muffins \Weird Sisters \The Pacific Entrance of Earl Wolf
70-71, 74 A Uniform Whig \Her Royal Highness The Duchess of York
72-73, 75 \A Sphere Projecting Against a Plane\ The Bottomless Pitt
74 Patriots Amusing Themselves
75 The Bishop of Tun's Breeches
76-78 Design for a new Gallery\ Malagrida Driving Post\ Antisaccharites
79 Scotch Harry's News
80 Vices Overlooked in the New Proclamation
81 Austrian Bugaboo Funking the French Army
82 The Fall of Wolsey
83-85 A Good Shot\ A Connoisseur Examining a Cooper\ A Voluptuary Under the Horrors of Digestion
86-88 Sin, Death, and the Devil \ Un Petit Souper a la Parisienne \ The Reception of the Diplomatique
89-91 The Bengal Levee \ The Slough of Despond \ Tom Paine's Nightly Pest
92-95 A Smoking Club \ John Bull Bothered \ French Liberty - British Slavery \ Sans-Culottes Feeding Europe
96-99 The Dagger Scene \ The Blood of the Murdered \ A Democrat \ The Chancellor of the Inquisition
100-101 Fatigues of the Campaign \ Dumourier Dining in State
102-103 Britannia between Scylla & Charybdis \ John Bull's Progress
104-105 Flannel Armour \ The Heroic Charlotte La Cordé
106-108 Blue and Buff Charity\ A Paris Belle\ A Paris Beau\ A French Hailstorm
110-112 Pantagruel's Victorious Return\ French Telegraph Making Signals\ The Blessings of Peace
113-115 The Genius of France\ The Eruption of the Mountain\ The Lover's Dream
116-118 The Prophet of the Hebrews \ Leaving Off Powder\ Patriotic Regeneration
119-121 Light Expelling Darkness \ Affability\ A True British Tar
122-124 The Real Cause of the Present High Price \ Polonius\ John Bull Ground Down
125-127 God Save the KIng \ Blindman's Bluff\ Presages of the Millenium
128-131 What a CUR'TIS\ A Keen-sighted Politician warming his\ The British Butcher\ The Sleep Walker
132 The Republican Attack
133 Supplementary Militia
134 Copenhagen House
135 Substitutes for Bread
136 The Republican Rattlesnake
137 Retribution - Tarring and Feathering
138 Hanging. Drowning.
139 The Crown and Anchor Libel
140-142 The Death of the Great Wolf\ The Royal Bullfight\ The Presentation
143 A Hackney Meeting
144 Pity the Sorrows of a Poor Old Man
145 The Dog Tax
146 Democratic Levelling
147 The Generae of Patriotism
148 John Bull and His Dog Faithful
149 The Wine Duty
150 The Dissolution
151-154 The Hustings \ The Daily Advertiser\ The Proof of the Refined Feelings\ The Caneing in Conduit Street
155-157 Promised Horrors of the French Invasion\ Glorious Reception of the Ambassador of Peace\ Opening of the Budget
158 Begging No Robbery
159 End of the Irish Invasion
160 The Giant Factotum
161 The Lion's Share
162 The Tree of Liberty
163 The Republican Hercules
164 The Nuptial Bower
165 Bank Notes - Paper Money
166-169 The Tables Turned\ Political Ravishment\ Midas Transmuting all into Paper\ Le Bonnet Rouge
170-172 The Bridal Night\ La Baiser a la Wirtembourg\ Parliamentary Reform
173-179 The Loyal Toast\ The Friend of Humanity and Knife-Grinder\ The Storm Rising\La Promenade en Famille\ The Esplanade\ Consequences of a Successful French Invasion\ We Explain De Rights of Man\ (Double-fold)
180-181 We Fly on the Wings of The Wind\ Me Teach De English Repulicans to Work
182-184\ Lord Longbow, The Alarmist\St. George's Volunteers Charging
Search Night
185-192 Habits of New French Legislators, No. 1\ French Habits, No. 2\French Habits, No. 3\ French Habits, No. 4\ French Habits, No. 5\ French Habits, No. 6\ French Habits, No. 7\ French Habits, No. 8
193-198 French Habits, No. 9\ French Habits, No. 10\ French Habits, No. 11\ French Habits, No. 12\ London Corresponding Society Alarmed
Meeting of Unfortunate Citoyens
199-202 Shrine at St. Anne's Hill\ The Tree of Liberty\ The Explanation\ Opposition Telegraphs
203-207 Le Coupe de Maitre\ United Irishmen in Training\ United Irishmen Upon Duty\ Pig's Meat\ Nightly Visitors at St. Anne's Hill
207*Extirpation of the Plagues of Egypt
208 John Bull Taking a Luncheon
209 Nelson's Victory
210 Stealing Off
211 The Hero of the Nile
212 Fighting for the Dunghill
213 Destruction of the French Colossus
214 Improvements in Weights and Measures
215-218 Horrors of the Irish Union\' Meeting of the Monied Interest\ Citizens Visiting the Bastille\ Buonaparte Hearing of Nelson's Victory
219-220 The Apotheosis of Hoche\ Siege de la Colonne de Pompée
221 Egyptian Sketches
222 L'Insurrection de L'Institute Amphibie
223 L'Infanterie Française en Egypte
224 Praetor Urbanus
225-228 Théologie à Turque\ Mamaluck et Hussard Republicain\ Tirailleiur Français et Cheval Leger\ Supposed to be a Correct Representation
229-233 Exhibition of a Democratic Transparency\ New Pantheon of Democratic Mythology\ Hercules Reposing\ Mars\ Harpies defiling the Feast
234-237 Cupid\ The Twin Stars, Castor and Pollux\ The Affrighted Centaur\ The Inexpressible Air of Dignity
239-240 A Man of Importance\ Field-Marshal Count Sawarrow-Romniskoy
241-244 The State of the War\ The High German Method\ Independence\ Pizarro Contemplating
245 French Generals Retiring
246 Allied Powers Unbooting Egalite
247 The Reception in Holland
248 Exit Liberte a la Françoise!
249-251 Effusions of a Pot of Porter\ The French Consular Triumvirate\ Design for the Naval Pillar
252-254 Democracy; or a sketch of the life of Buonaparte\ The New Speaker\ Buonaparte Leaving Egypt
255-257 The Worn-Out Patriot\ The Magnanimous Ally\ The Union Club
258-261 Integrity Retiring From Office\ Political Amusements for Young Gentlemen\ Lilliputian Substitutes\ Preliminaries of Peace!
262-265 Political Dreamings!\ Preparing for the Grand Attack\ The National Parachute\ Sketches of the Interior of St. Stephen's
266-270 Hope\ Despair\ The Nursery\ Introduction of Citizen Volpone\ German Nonchalance
271-273 The First Kiss These Ten Years\ A Phantasmagoria\ Bat-Catching
274 Doctor Sangrado Curing John Bull
275-280 Physical Aid\ Armed Heroes\ French Volunteers Marching\ French Invasion\ Maniac Ravings\ Death of the Corsican Fox\ (Double-fold)
281-284\ The Handwriting Upon The Wall\ Destruction of the French Gun-Boats\ John Bull and the Alarmist\ The Corsican Carcase
285-287 The Corsican Pest\ The King of Brobdingnag 1\ The Genius of France
288-289 The King of Brobdingnag 2\ A Morning Ride
290 Confederated Coalition
291 Middlesex Election, 1804
292-298 Buonaparte Forty-Eight Hours After Landing!\ Uncorking Old Sherry\ The Grand Coronation Procession\ The Plum-Pudding in Danger\ The Apples and the Horse-Turds\ John Bull Offering Little Boney Fair Play\ The State Waggoner
299-300 End of the Irish Farce\ St. George and the Dragon
301-304 Britannia Between Death and the Doctors\ The Reconciliation\ The Wounded Lion\ The Surrender of Ulm
305-308 Political Candour\ The Death of Admiral Lord Nelson\ Le Diable Boiteux\ The Cabinetical Balance
309-312 Tiddy-Doll, the Great French Gingerbread Baker\ Making Decent\ More Pigs than Teats\ A Tub for the Whale
313-316 A Great Stream from a Petty Fountain\ Pacific Overtures\ The Magnanimous Minister\ Comforts of a Bed of Roses
317 The Bear and his Leader
318 The Triumph of Quassia
319 Visiting the Sick
320 Bruin in his Boat
321-324 The Friend of the People\ Sketch for a Monument of\ Dissapointed Justice\ Westminster Conscripts\ News from Calabria
325-330 Triumphal Procession\ The High Flying Candidate\ Posting to the Election\ The Funeral Procession of Broad-Bottom\ View of the Hustings\ A Plumper for Paull! \ (Double-fold)
331-334 Patriots Deciding a Point of Honour!\ John Bull and the Sinking Fund\ Election Candidates\ The Fall of Icarus
335-337 A Kick at the Broad Bottoms\ Political Mathematicians Shaking\ The Pigs Possessed
338-340 The New Dynasty\ Charon's Boat\ Phaeton Alarmed!
341-344 Delicious Dreams! Castles in the Air!\ Pillars of the Constitution\ British Tars Towing the Danish Fleet\ Broad Bottomed Drones Storming
345-348 L'Enfant Trouve\ The Spanish Bull Fight\ The Valley of the Shadow of Death\ Spanish Patriots Attacking
349-351 The Loyal Address\ Patriotic Petitions\ Disciples Catching the Mantle
352-354 Pandora Opening Her Box \ Apotheosis of the Corsican Phoenix\ Overthrow of the Republican Babel
355-357 An Old English Gentleman Pestered\ The Introduction of the Pope\ The Reform of Parliament
358-361 The Life of William Cobbett 1\ The Life of William Cobbett 2\ The Life of William Cobbett 3\ The Life of William Cobbett 4
362-365 The Life of William Cobbett 5\ The Life of William Cobbett 6\
The Life of William Cobbett 7\ The Life of William Cobbett 8
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367-370 Les Plaisirs du Ménage\ Grace Before Meat\ The German Dancing Master\ Regardez Moi
371-375 A Natural Crop\ Paille d'Avoine\ Monuments Lately Discovered\ La Belle Assemblée\ The Assault d'Armes
376-379*** Margaret's Ghost\ Betty Canning Revived\ The Thunderer\ Ornaments of Chelsea Hospital\ How to Ride with Elegance\ Sampson Overcome\ Anecdote Maçonique
380-382 Shakespeare Sacrificed\ Bombardinian Conferring\ A Peep into the Shakespeare Gallery
383-389 The Finishing Touch\ La Derniere Ressource\ Patent Bolsters\ An Angel Gliding\ Britannia\ A Witch, Upon a Mount's Edge\ Les Trois Magots
390-394 The Power of Beauty\ Le Cochon et Ses Deux Petites\ St. Cecilia\ A Spencer and a Threadpaper\ A Vestal of __93
395-398 Spouting\ A Duet\ Flemish Characters\ Flemish Characters
399-402 And Catch the Living Manners\ Modern Elegance\ A Portrait\ Count Rupee Following the Fashion
403-406 Enter Cowslip\ Characters in High Life\ Parasols for 1795\ The Shadow of a Duke
407-411 A Slice of the Gloster Cheese\ For Improving the Breed\ A Lady Putting On Her Cap\ The Great South Sea Caterpillar\ The Archduke
412-415 A Decent Story\ Twopenny Whist\ A Modern Belle Going to the Rooms at Bath\ The Fashionable Mamma
416-420 Lady Godiva's Rout\ High Change in Bond Street\ A Burgess of Warwick Lane\ La Belle Espagnole\ My Poll and my Partner Joe
421-424 Oh! That This Too Solid Flesh Would Melt\ Cymon and Iphigenia\ The Loss of the Faro Bank\ Discipline a la Kenyon
425-428 Exaltation of the Pharoah's Daughter\ Georgy a Cockhorse\ Sandwich Carrots!\ A Corner Near the Bank
429-432 A Peep at Christie's\ Contemplations Upon a Coronet\ Modern Grace\ The Marriage of Cupid and Psyche
433-436 Pylades and Orestes\ Heroes Recruiting at Kelsey's\ A Hint to Modern Sculptors\ Un Diplomatique, Settling Affairs
437-440 Staggering Bobs\ Portrait of an Irish Chief\ Pushpin\ The Gordon Knot
441-443 Homer Singing His Verses\ The Salute\ Titanus Redivivus
444-447 German Luxury\ Loyal Souls\ Brigade-Major\ The Military Caricaturist
448-452 Operatical Reform\ A Country Concert\ Thirty Years I Have Lived in this Parrish\ Notorius Characters\ No. 1 Monstrosities of 1799
453-456 Punch Cures the Gout\ The Gout\ A Gentleman of the Court\ French Tailor Fitting John Bull
457-464 Waltzer Au Mouchoir\ Oh! Listen to the Voice of Love\ The Comforts of a Rumford Stove\ A Military Sketch of a Gilt Stick\ A Scotch Pony\ Equestrian Elegance!\ Georgy in the Coal-Hole\ A Standing Dish at Boodle's
465-472 Gentle Manners\ Symptoms of Deep Thinking\ [Large Boots] \ Corporeal Stamina\ A Prince of the Old School\ Pen-etration\ Half Natural\ "So Skippy Skipton, With His Wonted Grace"
473-480 All Bond Street Trembled\ Pattern Staff\ A Dash Up St.\ James's Street\ Capt. Townsend\ Nauticus\ An Illustrious Character\ The Royal Lounger\ The Prince of Wales
481-484 Taking Physic\ Gentle Emetic\ Breathing a Vein\ Charming Well Again
485-487 Mrs. Gibbs, The Notorious Street-Walker\ Comfort to the Corns\ Begone Dull Care
488-491 Hounds Finding\ Hounds in Full Cry\ Hounds Thrown Off\ Coming in at the Death
492-495 Cockney Sportsmen Marking Game\ Cockney Sportsmen Shooting Flying\ Cockney Sportsmen Recharging\ Cockney Sportsmen Finding a Hare
496-499 Venus Attired by the Graces\ Dido in Despair\ A Cognoscenti Contemplating\ A Pair of Polished Gentlemen
500-506 Ars Musica\ A Welch Tandem\ What Can Little T____O____ Do?\ Fat Cattle\ Elegance\ Democratique Anacreontics in Full Song\ Metallic Tractors
507-508 A Lyoness\ A Bravura Air. Mandane.
509-512 Mental Energy\ A Pinch of Cephalic\ A Bouquet of the last Century\ Lordly Elevation
513-516 Advantages of Wearing Muslin\ Tales of Wonder\ Diana Return'd from the Chase\ Blowing-Up the Pic-Nics
517-523 The Pic-Nic Orchestra\ Germans Eating Sourkrout\ The Cow-Pock\ Scientific Researches!\ Governor Wall's Ghost\ Mary of Buttermere\ Dillettanti Theatricals
524-527 A Great Man on the Turf\ The Three Mr. Wiggins's\ The Bulstrode Siren \ A Hint to Young Officers
528-531 A Broad Hint of Not Meaning To Dance\ Company Shocked at a Lady\ An Old Maid on a Journey\ Fortune Hunting
532-535 The Theatrical Bubble\ The Guardian Angel\ A Cockney and his Wife\ Posting in Ireland
536-539 Clearing a Five-Bar Gate\ Posting in Scotland\ Harmony Before Matrimony\ Matrimonial Harmonics
540-543 Elements of Skateing. Attitude!\ Elements of Skateing. The Consequence\ Elements of Skateing. A Fundemental Error\ Elements of Skateing. Making the most
544-550 Morning Promenade\ The Rake's Progess at the University, No. 1\ The Rake's Progess at the University, No. 2\ The Rake's Progess at the University, No.3\ The Rake's Progess at the University, No. 4\ The Rake's Progess at the University, No. 5\ The Sound of the Horn \(2 SHEETS)
551-556 Connoisseurs Examining A Collection\ Mother Goose, at Oxford\ Delicious Weather\ Dreadful Hot Weather\ Sad Sloppy Weather\Raw Weather
557-564 Fine Bracing Weather\Windy Weather\Very Slippy Weather\Maecenas in Pursuit of the Fine Arts\Fast Asleep\Wide Awake\A View of Newmarket Heath\An Old Encore at the Opera
565-567 Farmer Giles and his Wife Venus a la Coquille Theatrical Mendicants Relieved
568-573 Les Invisibles La Walse. Le Bon Genre. Progress of the Toilet - The Stays Progress of the Toilet - The Wig Progress of the Toilet - Dress Completed Grace, Fashion, and Manners
574-577 A Petty Professor of Modern History Counsellor O.P. Defender A Squall A Calm
578-581 The Graces in a High Wind A Little Music Matins at D__WN__NG College, \Billy the Gamekeeper
582 A Barber's Shop in Assize Time\ Tentanda via est qua me quoque possim
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"SUPPRESSED" SERIES
1-2 "Evacuation before Resignation" "The Injured Count,, S___"
3-4 "Sawney in the Bog-House" "Junction of Parties"
5-6 "Wouski" "The Castle in the Moon"
15-16 "The Monster going to take his afternoon's Luncheon"\ "Swearing to the Cutting Monster"
17-18 "Lubber's Hole, alias..." "Patience on a Monument"
19-20 "The Devil to Pay" "Fashionable Contrasts"
21-22 "The Coming-On of the Monsoons", \"Taking Physick"
23-24 "Wha Wants Me?", \"Going to London Through Epping Forest"
25-26 "National Conveniences" "Brisk Cathartic"
27-28 "Nature Display'd...", \"Ladies Dress, As it soon will be"
29-30 "The Zenith of French Glory" "Fashionable Jockeyship"
31-32 "Presentation of the Mahometan Credentials" "The French Invasion"
33-34 "The Grand Signor Retiring", \"The Jersey Smuggler Detected"
35-36 "Enchantments Lately Seen..." "The Orangerie"
37 "Madam Talian and the Empress Josephine"
38-39 "The Feast of Reason & the Flow of Soul" "Duke Williams Ghost"
40-41 "Playing in Parts..." "The Man of Feeling..."
42-43 "Evacuation of Malta" "Palemon and Lavinia"
44-45 "Miss, I have a Monstrous Crow to pluck with you" "and would'st thou turn the vile Reproach on me?"
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