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£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

Fairly typical sub- Punch social humour with one rather black exception for which the caption is representative of the whole; “Captain Dandy of the Rifle Volunteers on his Way to Drill. Woman [to her husband]; Ah! Lookee John! Here be a nasty foreigner lets [sic.] kill he, with a pitch fork.” The image merely confirms that she intends to match actions with words. The unforeseen dangers of those rather spiffy, if “European”, Volunteer uniforms. Scarce, neither this edition, nor the, putative, first is in NSTC, on BLPC or COPAC, no copies located on OCLC, RLIN or KVK. We have been unable to discover anything about the artist, or the circumstances of publication of this rather strange little work.

• Binding: Hardcover

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