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Character sketches, development drawings, and original pictures of wit and humour

Title: Character sketches, development drawings, and original pictures of wit and humour / done in permanent lines for posterity by Charles H. Bennett & Robert B. Brough.
Author: Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.
Publication: London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1872]

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Description

x, 359, [31] p., [18] folded leaves of plates : ill.; 25 cm.

Uniform Title

Poets' wit and humour. Selections. 1872.

Alternative Title

Origin of species.
Shadow and substance.

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Note

"Mr. Nutt took out a stalwart, plethoric cigar, resembling a sausage": p. 57 and ill., p. [53].
"The work originated with the artist [i.e. Bennett]--the writer's [i.e. Brough's] share of it being ... accessorial and supplementary"--"Explanatory," p. [vii].
"Illustrated with ninety-four engravings, and many head-pieces and finials."
The 36 ill. in the second work were originally issued (without text) as: Shadows. Second series / by Charles Bennett. London : W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), [1857]. Thirty ill. and text (28 sketches in prose or verse by Brough and 2 by H. Sutherland Edwards) issued as: Shadow and substance ... London : W. Kent & Co. (late D. Bogue), 1860 (originally issued as 10 pts. in 9, 1858-1860).
Third work comprises selection of Bennett's ill. and excerpts from the poems from: Poets' wit and humour / selected by W.H. Wills ... London : Bell and Daldy, 1861.
The ill. are wood engravings; some in 2nd work signed J[oseph] S[wain].
Ill. to 1st work, on folded leaves, attached to binding by means of hinges.
Without the final 2 p. of publisher's advertisements, present in some copies.
Binding, publisher's, of dark red cloth, blocked in black, ochre and blind.

Contents

The origin of species, dedicated by natural selection to Charles Darwin, M.A., F.R.S. -- Shadow and substance -- A selection of the designs of Charles Bennett, illustrating Poets' wit and humour

Call Number

Arents SA 1290 (Bennett)

LCCN

37025880

OCLC

4225887
NYPG86-B45000

Author

Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867.

Title

Character sketches, development drawings, and original pictures of wit and humour / done in permanent lines for posterity by Charles H. Bennett & Robert B. Brough.

Imprint

London : Ward, Lock, and Tyler, [1872]

Local Note

Provenance: Justin G. Schiller (bookplate).

Added Author

Brough, Robert B. (Robert Barnabas), 1828-1860.

Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. Origin of species. 1872.

Bennett, Charles H. (Charles Henry), 1829-1867. Shadow and substance. 1872.

Edwards, H. Sutherland (Henry Sutherland), 1828-1906.

Swain, Joseph, 1820-1909.

Added Title

Poets' wit and humour. Selections. 1872.

Origin of species.

Shadow and substance.

Research Call Number

Arents SA 1290 (Bennett)

NDF (Bennett, C. H. Character sketches)

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