Item Detail
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Published at the Punch office
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1
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A'Beckett, Gilbert
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The Comic History of England
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20 pts. in 19
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original parts in decorative blue wrappers, enclosed in cloth box
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London
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1846-47
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First Edition in Original parts
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23 cm.
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VAULT 942 Ab33c 1846
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With 20 hand-colored plates and many woodcuts in the text by John Leech. This book is often cited as containing the best of Leech's work. The text is, shall we say, dated, like so much that was considered "comic" by our ancestors, but the illustrations are masterpieces of humor. This is a fine set and collates perfectly with Tooley. In the last part there is an inserted advertisement not called for by him.