A DISCOVERY CONCERNING GHOSTS,
SIGNED BY CRUIKSHANK

"Questionable! - ay; so very questionable,
in my opinion, is the fact of their coming at all,
that I am now going to question
whether they ever did, or can come."

-- Cruikshank, A Discovery Concerning Ghosts

CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE. A DISCOVERY CONCERNING GHOSTS; WITH A RAP AT THE "SPIRIT-RAPPERS." London: Frederick Arnold, 1863. 8vo. Original blue printed wrappers. 48 pages; 9 woodcuts in the text. Slight wear to spine and corners. A very good copy of an ephemeral item.

FIRST EDITION, signed on the top wrapper by Cruikshank. A Discovery Concerning Ghosts, a poke at the beliefs of others in ghosts, spirits and apparitions, was one of the few pamphlets for which Cruikshank both produced the illustrations and wrote the text. Cohn 209. BT000014.

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