A'BECKETT, GILBERT ABBOT & JOHN LEECH (ILLUSTRATOR). THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND, LONDON: PUNCH OFFICE, JULY 1846 - FEBRUARY 1848, 20 PARTS IN 19, 8°, FIRST EDITION IN ORIGINAL PARTS, 20 hand-coloured etched plates by J. Leech (occasional slight offsetting and spotting, title, contents and preface bound in at the end of no. xi and no. xx, partly uncut), original blue printed wrappers (front cover of no. i tender, lot number pasted down to front cover of no. xviii, some covers slightly soiled), preserved in cloth folder and morocco slipcase.