£160 - £200
c.1840s Thackeray caricature "proof" on India paper, 255x227mm, initialled by Mr Tregaskis and numbered "80", tiny nick at upper right corner, otherwise fine, together with a "proof" printed from the defaced block on white laid paper, 196x164mm. An accompanying copy of a 1937 Charles Nissen advert offers the two proofs at Two Guineas a pair, and states "the original caricature drawn by W.M Thackeray was given to Sir Henry Cole and purchased at the sale of his library by Mr Tregaskis, bookseller of Holborn, who had a line block of the caricature made from which 100 proofs were struck before it was defaced; the original caricature was sold to an American collector, the proofs being initialled and numbered and then sold to Charles Nissen, with the defaced wood block". A fine pair, the India Paper proofs usually found foxed or with faults, this example unusually fine. (2).
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