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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. by a Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME.
by a Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
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Pages 308 pp.8vo. Original green cloth binding stamped in gilt. All edges gilt. 1st edition. Illustrated with 10 hand-colored steel engravings and numerous wood cuts by John Leech. Inner hinges tender, text block shaken, else in very good condition.
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The Comic History of Rome
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Bradbury and Evans, 1852-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. xii, 308 pages, [10] leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 22 cm. Original cloth. Gilt spine and cover. All edges gilt. Shaken. Shelfwear. Clean, unmarked pages.
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The Comic History of Rome
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Londion: Bradbury and Evans, 1853. Green cloth with gilt image of woman and small boy on front cover and three separate figuresseparated by gilt lettering, on spine. Illustrated by John Leech with 10 hand colored plates and vignette line drawings. All edges gilt. Book plate of former owner inside front cover. Slightly shaken and moderate wear to spine ends. A nice clean copy with colored plates which still retain their vibrancy. Near very good.. Reprint. Hardcover. Near Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
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The Comic History of Rome
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London: Bradbury, Evans, and Co. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. John Leech. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. No date [circa 1850]. Bound in green morocco with gilt to front board & to spine. Gilt to all page edges. Illustrated throughout in black & white, & with hand coloured illustrated plates. One plate is missing pg. 138. Wear to outer extremities; some rubbing to gilt on front board & spine. Pages are age darkened with some intermittent soiling, foxing toward boards, some rippling to pastedowns. A punctured tear to the first free endpage has been neatly repaired. Previous owner's signature to the upper first free endpage.
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London: Bradbury, Agnew, & Co, 8, 9, 10 Bouverie Street. Hardcover. Very Good. No date, c. 1872. Pl. xii, 308. 10 unnumbered leaves of hand coloured plates. Mustard coloured half morroco over patterned paper boards, same patterned endpapers, top edge gilt, bookplate to front paste-down. The leather is foxed and darkened. Gilt stamped lettering and images of ancient weapons stamped in black to two compartments. Endpapers lightly foxed, contents clean and the binding tight and square. Signed binding by New Yorker W. Bennett.
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[London]: : Bradbury and Evans, , [c.1852]. First edition in book form. 8vo, . Illustrated with 10 hand coloured engravings by John Leech and numerous text illustrations. half red morocco and marbled boards, gilt floral decorated spine panels, raised bands, a.e.g. , original front wrap bound in. A splendid copy with only a hint of wear.
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The Comic History of Rome
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London: Bradbury, Agnew & Co.. Near Fine with no dust jacket. N.D.. Reprint. First Edition. Hard Cover. Expertly rebacked in half-leather over marbled boards, original spine laid down in six compartments, gilt lettering in two compartments, intricate gilt tooling in remainder. Illustrated with ten hand-colored steel engravings and 98 in-text woodcuts by John Leech. nd (c. 1870). "One of the wittiest writers of the day" (Allibone, 152), writer Becket worked with illustrator Leech on the staff of the poplar and influential humor magazine "Punch." Leechs "humor is as keen, his sense of fun as marked [as George Cruikshanks] [Leechs pictures] are of the most graphic and mirth-producing kind, and yet the raillery is invariably good-humored" (DNB). Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (1811-1856) was an English humorist, lawyer and writer. He was born in London and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket. He was educated at…
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1851. A BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. THE COMIC HISTORY OF ROME. Illustrated by John Leech. (London): Bradbury, Evans, and Co., (1851). First edition bound from original parts. Illustrated with 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and with smaller wood engravings in text. Octavo. xii,308 pp. Full calf skillfully rebacked, with decoratively gilt-tooled spine, with two green lettering pieces, laid-down. Inside dentelles gilt, green coated endpapers, with bookplate on front pastedown. An attractive copy, with only slight darkening of spine and edges of boards. Two leaves have short tears at edges and, near the end, there is a shallow dampstain at the top edge of some pages, which does not affect text or illustrations; otherwise the interior is quite clean. Eight of the nine front wrappers from the original parts issue have been bound-in at the end, missing only the cover for number six, along with some of the advertisements, such as 2 (of 4) pp. of "Comic Rome advertiser no. 1, May 1851" and the 16 p.…
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