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Chicago: Callahan & Cockcroft / Burton & Leonard Printers, 1869. Reprint. Cloth. Near Fine/None [Archival clear mylar cover added]. George Cruikshank. 8vo, publisher's brown cloth with gold lettering on spine, illustrated by George Cruikshank with fronispiece and several plates (most with tissue guards), brown-coated endpapers, xi, [xii] + 376 pages. Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811 - 1856) was an English humorist.He edited the comic paper Figaro in London and was one of the original staff of Punch and a contributor until his death.<br/> <br/> He is perhaps best known as the author of The Comic History of England (1847-48), The Comic History of Rome (1852) and a Comic Blackstone (1846).<br/> <br/> George Cruikshank (1792 - 1878) was a prominent British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life. His remembered for his always dynamic, telling, and frequently humorous book illustrations... among them many… Ler mais

London : Bradbury And Evans, 1856. The True 1st Edition. Hardback. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked, calf-backec buckram. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat rubbed and dust-toned as with age. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. ; 252 pages; Physical desc. : xii, 252 p : ill. ; 18 cm. This edition is without the frontis added to the later re-issue. Subject: Law - Anecdotes, facetiae, satire, etc. Referenced by: OCLC 12126179. Bound with Douglas Jerrold's Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures from the same year

12mo sammelband, 3/4 green leather with marbled paper, gilt spine title. 4 imprints bound in. CONDITION: Very good, occasional foxing.