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Poets' wit and humour / Selected by W.H. Wills ; illustrated with one hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas.

Accession number
PML 142799
Creator
Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880.
Published
London : Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet Street, 1861.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
"Chiswick Press:--Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane."--Colophon.
Description
[8], 283, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 23 cm
Provenance
Signature of Forrest Reid on front flyleaf; gift inscription to Alice Adams (?), dated May 26th, 1862; from the libraries of J.N. Hart and Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Publisher's brown cloth with central white diamond paper onlay with printed vignette and initials "R.D." (i.e. Robert Dudley), blocked in gold and blind and bound by Leighton, Son and Hodge with their ticket (Ball 53b).
Classification
Department