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The Tour of Doctor Prosody, London: Matthew Iley, 1821. 8°, frontispiece and 19 hand-coloured engraved plates by C. Williams and W. Read (offsetting, occasional spotting), contemporary green half calf with stylised foliate roll-tooled blind borders, spine gilt in compartments, red calf lettering piece (joints and extremities lightly rubbed). Abbey Life 277. Tooley 433.
A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England, London: Punch, 1847-8. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles printed in red, engraved titles printed in red and black, 2 coloured steel-engraved frontispieces and 18 other plates by John Leech, woodcut illustrations (occasional light spotting and browning, one or two leaves loosening), original red cloth gilt (spines sunfaded, extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Tooley 295.
Together with Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz (London, 1863) and 11 (of 12) unbound astrological plates by George Cruikshank. (5)
A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. The Comic History of England, London: Punch, 1847-8. 2 volumes, 8°, half titles printed in red, engraved titles printed in red and black, 2 coloured steel-engraved frontispieces and 18 other plates by John Leech, woodcut illustrations (occasional light spotting and browning, one or two leaves loosening), original red cloth gilt (spines sunfaded, extremities lightly rubbed). FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Tooley 295.
Together with Charles Dickens' Sketches by Boz (London, 1863) and 11 (of 12) unbound astrological plates by George Cruikshank. (5)