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Title

Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. [New series] / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; [engraved by Orrin Smith] ; with original essays by distinguished writers.

Author

Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.

Publication

London : Robert Tyas, 1841

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Orrin, 1799-1843.
• Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857.
• Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.
• Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.
• Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.

Description

vi, 385 p., [58] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.

Alternative Title

• Heads of the people
• Portraits of the English

Subjects

• Caricatures and cartoons > Great Britain
• English wit and humor, Pictorial
• Great Britain > Social life and customs > 19th century > Humor

Note

• "New series"--Front covers.
• Added engraved t.p.
• Originally issued in 13 monthly pts. in 11 (the last a triple no.). Title page and other prelims. in pt. 11/13.
• Illustrations: 58 prints (incl. added t.p.) : wood engraving ; full-page. Additional wood-engraved ill. on covers of parts.
• Parts issue: Each pt. (no.) in illustrated buff paper covers, printed in greenish blue. Publisher's notices and advertisements on covers of most parts.

Indexed In (note)

• Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray

Contents

The chaperon and the débutante / Mrs. Gore -- The money-lender / Douglas Jerrold -- The old squire / William Howitt -- The ballet-mistress / Douglas Jerrold -- The mute / Mrs. Gore -- The Whig / An M.P. -- The farmer / Alice -- The country schoolmaster / William Howitt -- The fashionable authoress / William Thackeray -- The basket-woman / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- The lodging-house keeper / Paul Prendergast -- The bricklayer's labourer / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- The debtor and creditor / Douglas Jerrold -- The young squire / William Howitt -- The bum-boat woman / Captain Glascock, R.N. -- The poor curate / James Smythe, Jun. -- The quack doctor / Paul Prendergast -- The pawnbroker / Douglas Jerrold -- The artists / Michael Angelo Titmarsh -- The solicitor / Leman Rede -- The dowager / A bachelor of arts -- The Tory / An M.P. -- The collegean / A bachelor of arts -- The capitalist / F.G. Tomlins -- The waiter / Paul Prendergast -- The coachman and the guard / Nimrod -- The policeman / Paul Prendergast -- The parish clerk / Paul Prendergast -- The Spitalfields weaver / Arthur Armitage -- The sporting gentleman / Nimrod -- The barrister / Laman Blanchard -- The judge / Laman Blanchard -- The bishop / Laman Blanchard -- The jockey / Nimrod -- The British soldier / R.H. Horne -- The Chelsea pensioner / R.H. Horne -- The British sailor / E. Howard -- The Greenwich pensioner / E. Howard -- The radical M.P. / Akolouthos -- Corporation heads / Laman Blanchard.

Call Number

Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Heads 1841) 06-95

OCLC

15268793

Author

Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.

Title

Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. [New series] / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; [engraved by Orrin Smith] ; with original essays by distinguished writers.

Imprint

London : Robert Tyas, 1841 (London : Vizetelly and Co.)

Indexed In:

Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray, 82

Local Note

Arents copy: Parts issue; partly unopened. Provenance: Albert M. Cohn (bookplate).

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Added Author

Smith, Orrin, 1799-1843. Wood engraver

Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857.

Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.

Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.

Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.

Cohn, Albert m. (Albert Mayer) Former owner

Research Call Number

Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Heads 1841) 06-95