[FINE BINDINGS] -- A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott. John LEECH, illustrator. The Comic History of England. London: The Punch Office, 1847-1848. Vol. I-II. --The Comic History of Rome. London: Bradbury & Evans, [ca 1851]. Vol. III.
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[FINE BINDINGS] -- A'BECKETT, Gilbert Abbott (1811-1856). John LEECH (1817-1864), illustrator. The Comic History of England. London: The Punch Office, 1847-1848. Vol. I-II. --The Comic History of Rome. London: Bradbury and Evans, [ca 1851]. Vol. III.
2 works in 3 volumes, 8vo (216 x 135 mm). 30 colored etchings or engravings, over 240 woodcuts. Contemporary half tan calf gilt, red and green morocco leathering-pieces gilt. FIRST EDITIONS. Tooley 295 & 298.
[With:] ALIGHIERI, Dante (1265-1321). The Vision; or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, of Dante Alighieri. Rev. Henry Francis Cary, translator. London: Taylor and Hessey, 1819. 3 volumes, 8vo. 19th-century calf gilt, red morocco lettering-pieces gilt, stamp-signed MORRELL (minor wear).
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