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The Comic History of England

John Leech (1817-1864)


Price
£17,500

Signed
Gilbert Abbott à Beckett
The Comic History of England
London: Punch
1847
2 vols
First edition

Medium
Extra-illustrated with 22 original drawings by John Leech in watercolour, pen ink and pencil

Provenance
Walter T Spencer, 27 New Oxford Street, London; George Seton Veitch, of Friarshall, Paisley; Algernon Dunn Gardner, 57 Chester Square, London, and Denston Hall, Suffolk

Exhibited
'The Illustrators. The British Art of Illustration 1800-2014', Chris Beetles Gallery, November 2014-January 2015, No 33; 'Ruskin's Artists', Chris Beetles Gallery, 12 February-2 March 2019

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