Author: Douglas Jerrold; W. M. Thackeray; Leigh Hunt; Mrs. Gore; et al.
Title: Heads of the People or Portraits of the English
Description: London, George Routledge and Sons, 1878. Leather. Kenny Meadows' witty caricatures of the English with essays by a variety of authors, complete in two uniformly bound volumes. Two volumes in half calf bindings with marbled end papers and edges. Illustrated with 108 illustrations. Collated, complete. A two-volume set containing Kenny Meadows' witty caricatures of various English stereotypes in the nineteenth century, including the Chaperon and the Debutante, the Old Squire, the British Sailor, the Radical M.P. the Medical Student, the Factory Child, and many more. These illustrations are accompanied by original essays by distinguished writers, such as William Makepeace Thackeray, Leigh Hunt, and others. In half calf bindings. Externally, generally smart, though somewhat rubbed. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are bright and clean except for the odd spot to the first and last few pages. Plate of 'lawyer's clerk' detached but intact. Very Good . Ill.: Kenny Meadows. Very Good .

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