Lot 168
£756
Auction: 19 September 2024 from 10:00 BST
Volume 1, numbers 1-17; “New Series”, volume 1, Numbers [1]-2, [Glasgow: 1825-1826] Folio, earlier issues lithographed and later issues engraved, many sheets interleaved with blanks, contemporary or original brown cloth with later gilt tooling to upper cover
The Library of a Scottish Gentleman
The “Glasgow Looking Glass” is now commonly recognised as the “world's first comic”, published in the city as the new technology of stone lithographic printing arrived in the city. Series of cartoons are used in the work to tell stories or make social commentary, much as panels are employed in modern-day comics.