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Heading: (Leech, John)
Author: A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
Title: The Comic History of England [and] The Comic History of Rome
Place: London
Publisher:
Date: 1847-48, [1852]
Item # : 200986
Sale Number   404
Lot Number   76
Sale Name    
Illustrated & Children's Books; Prints; Fine Printing; Fine Books in All Fields
Sale Date   05/28/2009
Price realized   $ 300
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Description:
3 volumes. Including: The Comic History of England. 20 hand-colored engravings by John Leech. First Issue with half-titles printed in red. London: At the Punch Office, 1847-48 * The Comic History of Rome. 10 hand-colored engravings by John Leech. London: Bradbury and Evans, [1852]. (8vo) 8¼x5¼, uniformly bound in full red morocco, spines gilt, all edges gilt. First Editions in book form.
Previously published in parts. Tooley 295 & 298.
Condition:
Light wear at edges and corners; occasional light foxing; near fine.
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