Author: Gilbert Abbott A' Beckett
Title: The Comic History of England
Description: London, At the Punch Office , 1847-8. First edition. Leather. A beautiful first edition of this celebrated humorous history of England by Gilbert A Beckett and John Leech, in one beautiful morocco bound volume signed Hatchards. Initially published in parts between 1846 and 1848. The first book form edition complete in two volumes bound in one exceptionally bright Hatchards signed binding.Featuring ten hand coloured etching plates to each volume and numerous further vignette woodcuts throughout by famous caricaturist John Leech. Collated, complete. Leech was best known for his work with Punch, and enjoys fame as the first illustrator of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol.A celebrated humorous retelling of British history by Gilbert Abbott A' Beckett, from the Roman Invasion, with chapters concerned with William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and the Commonwealth, and concluding with George the Second.Gilbert Abbott A' Beckett was an English humourist, who also authored his famous retelling of Roman history The Comic History of Rome, often seen with the present volume.Complete with half titles and unique title page, preface/advertisements, contents and engraving list to each volume. Featuring the armorial bookplate to the Earl of Birkenhead to front pastedown and pictorial bookplate from Egerton Parker to front free endpaper. Rebound in full straight up grain morocco signed Hatchards with five raised bands, gilt to top edge, gilt tooling to spine and extremities, renewed endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, light fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Light faint minor spotting to first and last few leaves, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: John Leech. Very Good Indeed .
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Title: The Comic History of England
Description: London, At the Punch Office , 1847-8. First edition. Leather. A beautiful first edition of this celebrated humorous history of England by Gilbert A Beckett and John Leech, in one beautiful morocco bound volume signed Hatchards. Initially published in parts between 1846 and 1848. The first book form edition complete in two volumes bound in one exceptionally bright Hatchards signed binding.Featuring ten hand coloured etching plates to each volume and numerous further vignette woodcuts throughout by famous caricaturist John Leech. Collated, complete. Leech was best known for his work with Punch, and enjoys fame as the first illustrator of Charles Dickens' novella A Christmas Carol.A celebrated humorous retelling of British history by Gilbert Abbott A' Beckett, from the Roman Invasion, with chapters concerned with William the Conqueror, Henry VIII and the Commonwealth, and concluding with George the Second.Gilbert Abbott A' Beckett was an English humourist, who also authored his famous retelling of Roman history The Comic History of Rome, often seen with the present volume.Complete with half titles and unique title page, preface/advertisements, contents and engraving list to each volume. Featuring the armorial bookplate to the Earl of Birkenhead to front pastedown and pictorial bookplate from Egerton Parker to front free endpaper. Rebound in full straight up grain morocco signed Hatchards with five raised bands, gilt to top edge, gilt tooling to spine and extremities, renewed endpapers. Externally very smart with minor shelf wear, light fading to back strip. Internally, firmly bound. Light faint minor spotting to first and last few leaves, pages otherwise generally bright and clean. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: John Leech. Very Good Indeed .
Keywords: john leech first editions hatchards signed bindings first editions history John Leech
Price: GBP 550.00 = appr. US$ 785.39 Seller: Rooke Books
- Book number: 845A65
- Book number: 845A65
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