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Pictures of Life & Character ... from the Collection of Mr. Punch [First through Fifth Series. Complete]

by Leech, John

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First edition

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1869. First edition, bound from the parts. Each series with several hundred wood-engraved illustrations after Leech. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Contemporary half red morocco, a.e.g., original blue pictorial front wrappers bound-in at back. Rebacked to style, new front endsheets. Some minor paper flaws, chiefly at margins. Very good. First edition, bound from the parts. Each series with several hundred wood-engraved illustrations after Leech. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Complete series of the celebrated Pictures of John Leech, of which Thackeray exclaimed, "This book is better than plum-cake at Christmas. It is one enduring plum-cake ..." One of the great visual repositories of mid-Victorian English life and humor. Houfe 35; cf. also Ray 139 (for 1886 collected ed.)

  • Publisher: Bradbury and Evans
  • Year: 1869
  • Edition: First Edition
  • Binding: unknown

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