Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English
By: drawn by Kenny Meadows ; with original essays by Douglas Jerroed, Wm. Thackeray, Laman Blanchard, Samuel Lover, Leman Rede, Leigh Hunt, Mrs. Gore, Mrs. S.C. Hall, Wm. Howitt, and others.
Contributors: Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
Publisher: Henry G. Bohn
Published: 1864
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Other titles: Portraits of the English.
Notes: A popular work, to which Thackeray, Jerrold, Hunt, and others contributed some of their earliest sketches.  These literary sketches were written to the pictures and not, as some have imagined, the pictures drawn in illustration of the letterpress.  cf. Academy, 1874, II, 360.