Author: BROUGH, ROBERT B.
Title: Life Of Sir John Falstaff. Illustrated by George Cruikshank with A Biography of the Knight from Authentic Sources.
Description: First Edition; Super Royal 8vo; pp. xx, 196; frontispiece, 20 plates including the frontispiece, contemporary full leather fine binding, boards gilt ruled, raised bands, title lettered in gilt on spine, marbled endpapers, top edge gilt, other edges untrimmed, turn-ins with gilt stamped dots and flowers, very good copy. London, Longman, Brown, Green, Longmans, and Roberts, 1858 Remembered for his satirical and serious work, Robert Barnabas Brough (1828-60) was a playwright, journalist, poet he was a popular member of "bohemian" circle of journalists, writers and playwrights and together with his brother a founder member of the Savage Club. With a series of inspired etchings by the celebrated artist George Cruikshank (1792-1878), this is a delightful fictional biography, 'from authentic sources', of that most colourful of Shakespeare's characters.

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