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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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Additional Authors
  • Yeager, Joseph, approximately 1792-1859.
  • Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857.
  • Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
  • Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
  • Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.
  • Hanford Collection.
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 engraver
Jerrold, 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)
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