Heads of the people
Subtitle: or, Portraits of the English
By: drawn by Kenny Meadows with original essays by distinguished writers
Contributors: Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874
Publisher: Carey & Hart
Published: 1841
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: England -- Social life and customs
Notes: A popular work, to which Thackeray and Jerrold 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