The comic history of England / by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett ; with ten coloured etchings and one hundred and twenty woodcuts by John Leech.

Accession number: 
PML 142636-37
Author: 
À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856.
Published: 
[London] : Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street, 1847-1848.
Description: 
2 v. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm.
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

1st ed.
Half-titles in red; title pages in red & black, with vignette.
Illustrated with 20 colored etched plates, 35 wood engraved initials, t.p. vignettes, and 164 textual vignettes after Leech.
Plates hand colored as issued.
"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars."--Colophon, v. 1 & 2.
Vol. 1: xii, 320 p., [10] leaves of plates; v. 2: xii, 304 p., [10] leaves of plates.
Library's copy lacks v. 1 half t.p.

Binding: 
Publisher's purple cloth blocked in gold and blind, by Webb & Hunt, Castle Street, Liverpool, with their ticket .
Provenance: 
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
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