A very good copy of the 1845 first edition of George Cruikshank's Table Book filled with some of the illustrators most popular steel engravings and illustrations on wood, edited by Gilber Abbott A. Beckett and published at the Punch Offices at 92 Fleet Street, London. Bound in at the front blank preliminary page is a handwritten, undated letter Ca. 1830 from George Cruikshank addressed to prominent London Attorney and Print Collector Thomas Wilson Esq. of Montague Street in Portman Square. It reads in part; "Dear Sir, May I expect to have the pleasure of seeing you if I call on you on Friday morning next about 11 o'clock? Should Friday be inconvenient shall I say Saturday?" It is signed George Cruikshank. The letter is in very good condition 7 1/4" x 9" with a vertical and 2 horizontal folds, a bit of toning and soiling and some loss to the paper on the upper & lower left corner where the note was cut open. The Table Book - 8vo. 284 pages - Bound in 1/2 calf leather over marble boards with matching endpages and marbled page edges. Gilt-blocked leather to spine, with raised bands. Leather corner tips bumped and rubbed with a bit of loss at the leather spine tips and a few scrapes and scratches to the paper boards and front spine joint nicely reinforced.  Provenance - Armorial bookplate of prominent London Physician and Lecturer George Charles Bright, MD (1840-1922) affixed to the front endpaper.