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[HARVEY, William Henry (1796-1866).] Geoographical Fun: Being Humourous Outlines of Various Countries. London: Hodder and Stoughton, [1868].
The first edition of Harvey's striking cartographical caricatures. The introduction describes these caricature maps as the work of a “young lady ... in her fifteenth year”; the introduction itself and accompanying four lines of verse beneath each map are ascribed to “Aleph” on the title-page. But the book was in fact by Harvey, wood-engraver, illustrator, and writer of verse for children. Complete with 12 plates, comprising England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain & Portugal, Prussia, Germany, Holland & Belgium, Denmark, and Russia.
Small folio (272 x 227mm). Half-title, 2 ad leaves. 12 plates (disbound). Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, illustration mounted to upper cover (some rubbing to extremities of cloth, a little wear to cover illustration).
The first edition of Harvey's striking cartographical caricatures. The introduction describes these caricature maps as the work of a “young lady ... in her fifteenth year”; the introduction itself and accompanying four lines of verse beneath each map are ascribed to “Aleph” on the title-page. But the book was in fact by Harvey, wood-engraver, illustrator, and writer of verse for children. Complete with 12 plates, comprising England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, France, Spain & Portugal, Prussia, Germany, Holland & Belgium, Denmark, and Russia.
Small folio (272 x 227mm). Half-title, 2 ad leaves. 12 plates (disbound). Publisher's green cloth stamped in gilt, illustration mounted to upper cover (some rubbing to extremities of cloth, a little wear to cover illustration).