The Comic History of England with The Comic History of Rome

by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, Leech, John

$450 · Offered by Lorne Bair Rare Books · No longer available

First edition

London: Punch Office, 1847-48. First Edition. Octavo 22cm . Full tan calf, tooled in gilt at board edges, spine, and turn-ins, all edges gilt; marbled endpapers; xii,320pp; xii,394pp; xii,308pp; 30 hand-colored etchings and numerous in-text wood engravings by John Leech. Straight volumes, with faint staining to bindings at lower spine and board corners, not affecting interiors; lower joints

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