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The comic history of Rome

Title: The comic history of Rome / by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; illustratd by John Leech.
Author: À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856.
Publication: London : Bradbury and Evans, [1851-1852].

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Additional Authors

Leech, John, 1817-1864.

Description

10 pts. in 9 (xii, 308 p., [10] leaves of plates) : 108 ill. (10 col.); 23 cm.

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Note

Each part (no.) in original illustrated blue-green paper covers, as issued monthly (the last a double no.) May 1851-Feb.? 1852 (cf. advertisements in nos. 1 and 9/10), with title: The comic history of Rome / by the author of The comic history of England. Pages [i]-xii, incl. t.p., issued with no. 9/10. No. 1 includes "Comic Rome advertiser no. 1, May 1851" (4 p.) and "Guild of Literature and Art. Prospectus of a new endowment" (16 p.). Nos. 7-9/10 include publisher's advertisements on inserted slips.
Illustrations: 10 full-page hand-colored steel etchings and 98 smaller wood engravings; cover design, repeated on t.p.
Field copy varies: lacks prospectus in no. 1 and inserted ad. in no. 7.

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Arents BIP (A Beckett, G. Comic history 1851) 84-4

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Author

À Beckett, Gilbert Abbott, 1811-1856.

Title

The comic history of Rome / by Gilbert Abbott à Beckett ; illustratd by John Leech.

Imprint

London : Bradbury and Evans, [1851-1852].

Indexed In:

Tooley, R.V. Coloured plates (1979 ed.), 298

Church, E.D. Engl. lit., 3

Grolier. Leech, 187

Field, W.B.O. Leech, p. 169-171

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Added Author

Leech, John, 1817-1864.

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (A Beckett, G. Comic history 1851) 84-4