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Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English
- Title
- Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; with original essays by distinguished writers.
- Author
- Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
- Publication
- Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1841.
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- Description
- 370 p., [32] leaves of plates : ill., plates; 26 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Heads of the people
- Portraits of the English
- Subjects
- Note
- Added illustrated t. p.
- Selections from works originally published as: Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. London : Robert Tyas, 1840; Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. [New series.] London : Robert Tyas, 1841.
- The ill. are wood engravings by J. Yeager, copies of the wood engravings by John Orrin Smith in the original eds., after drawings by Kenny Meadows.
- Binding (note)
- Binding: Publisher's dark brown cloth, blind-stamped; gilt ill. and lettering on spine.
- Contents
- Debtor and creditor / Douglas Jerrold -- The cockney / Douglas Jerrold -- The diner-out / Henry Brownrigg, Esq. -- The fashionable authoress / William Thackeray -- The "lion" of a party / Douglas Jerrold -- The young lord / Douglas Jerrold -- The young squire / William Howitt -- The waiter / Paul Prendergast -- The dress-maker / Henry Brownrigg, Esq. -- The coachman and the guard / Nimrod -- The linen-draper's assistant / Henry Brownrigg, Esq. -- The chaperon and the débutante / Mrs. Gore -- The collegean / A bachelor of arts -- The conductor / Leigh Hunt -- Tavern heads / Charles Whitehead -- The basket-woman / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- Captain Rook and Mr. Pigeon / William Thackeray -- The sporting gentleman / Nimrod -- The farmer's daughter / William Howitt -- The family governess / Miss Winter -- The stock-broker / Owen Penguin -- The printer's devil / Douglas Jerrold. -- The bricklayer's laborer / Mrs. S.C. Hall.
- Call Number
- NDE (Heads of the people)
- OCLC
- 2712425
- Author
- Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
- Title
- Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; with original essays by distinguished writers.
- Imprint
- Philadelphia : Carey & Hart, 1841.
- Binding
- Binding: Publisher's dark brown cloth, blind-stamped; gilt ill. and lettering on spine.
- Local Note
- NDE copy: [8] p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at beginning, [2] p. at end. Rebound in brown buckram.8-NDE copy: 24 p. of publisher's advertisements bound in at beginning, [2] p. at end. In original binding. Incomplete: 3 plates wanting. Bookplate: The Admiral Franklin Hanford Collection in the New York Public Library, 1929.
- Added Author
- Hanford Collection.Yeager, Joseph, approximately 1792-1859. Wood engraverJerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857.Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.
- Research Call Number
- NDE (Heads of the people)8-NDE (Heads of the people)