The comic history of England
By: by Gilbert Abbott A'Beckett ; with ten coloured etchings and one hundred and twenty woodcuts by John Leech
Contributors: Leech, John, 1817-1864, illustrator; Bradbury & Evans; Jacob Berger Collection (Columbia University. Rare Book and Manuscript Library)
Publisher: Published at the Punch Office, 85, Fleet Street
Published: 1847
Place of publication: [London]
Language: eng
Number of pages: 20
Subjects: Humor; History
Notes: 1st ed.

Half-titles in red; title pages in red & black, with vignette.

Illustrated with 20 colored etched plates, 35 wood engraved initials, t.p. vignettes, and 164 textual vignettes after Leech.

Plates hand colored as issued.

"London: Bradbury and Evans, printers, Whitefriars."--Colophon, v. 1 & 2.

Vol. 1: xii, 320 p., [10] leaves of plates; v. 2: xii, 304 p., [10] leaves of plates.

Rare Book (Book Arts) copy: Green printed wrappers from original monthly parts no. VIII (February 1847) and no. XII (June 1847) bound in.

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1979 ed.), 295

Gift; Vivian Berger; 2002.

Rare Book (Book Arts) copy: Both volumes bound in full red leather; borders of upper and lower covers gilt with fillet and pin-dot roll with corner fleurons; similar gold-tooling on turn-ins; board edges gilt with single fillet; spine with raised bands and gilt in compartments with title, author, illustrator, and date; marbled endpapers; top edge of text gilt and other edges untrimmed; stamped "Morrell, binder, London" on upper flyleaf.