Author: Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett
Title: The Comic History of England
Description: London , The Punch Office , 1847-1848. First edition. Leather. Two volumes bound in one of The Comic History of England, with hand coloured plates. A complete two volume set of The Comic History of England, bound within one volume. First edition copies, the first volume being published in 1847 and the second in 1848. The Comic History of England is an entertaining and hilarious re-telling of British history, from the Roman Invasion to William the Conqueror, to Henry VIII and the Commonwealth, concluding with George the Second. These works are written by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett, a humourist who was one of the original staff of Punch. Punch was a British weekly satirical magazine. With ten hand coloured engravings to the first volume, one being loose but present. Ten hand coloured plates to volume two. In-text illustrations throughout both volumes. Collated, complete. In half calf binding with marbled boards. Externally, generally smart with rubbing to the spine and extremities and marks to the boards. Previous owner inscription to the reverse of the front free endpaper. Plate nine and pages 257-258 are loose to the first volume. Otherwise generally firmly bound with generally bright and clean pages. Good . Ill.: John Leech. Good .

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