Pictures of Life & Character … from the Collection of Mr. Punch [First through Fifth Series. Complete]

Leech, John

Published by Bradbury and Evans, London, 1869

About this Item

First edition, bound from the parts. Each series with several hundred wood-engraved illustrations after Leech. 1 vols. Oblong folio. Complete series of the celebrated Pictures of John Leech, of which Thackeray exclaimed, "This book is better than plum-cake at Christmas. It is one enduring plum-cake …" One of the great visual repositories of mid-Victorian English life and humor. Houfe 35; cf. also Ray 139 (for 1886 collected ed.) Contemporary half red morocco, a.e.g., original blue pictorial front wrappers bound-in at back. Rebacked to style, new front endsheets. Some minor paper flaws, chiefly at margins. Very good Each series with several hundred wood-engraved illustrations after Leech. 1 vols. Oblong folio.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Pictures of Life & Character … from the Collection of Mr. Punch [First through Fifth Series. Complete]
• Publisher: Bradbury and Evans, London
• Publication Date: 1869
• Edition: First edition, bound from the parts.
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  • Illustrated Books