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People I have met / by E. C. Grenville-Murray ; illustrated with fifty-four tinted engravings from designs by Fred. Barnard.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1883 Murray
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville, 1824-1881.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Characters and characteristics--Humor.
- Characters and characteristics.
- England--Social life and customs--19th century.
- England.
- Genre:
- English wit and humor.
- Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
- Physical Description:
- 286 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Vizetelly, 1883 (London : Printed by J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited)
- Contents:
- The old earl
- The dowager
- The rector
- The curate
- The family solicitor
- The chaperon
- The ornamental dorector
- The promising son
- The favorite daughter
- The college don
- The retired colonel
- The bachelor
- The old maid
- The spendthrift
- The usurer
- The rich widow
- The newspaper editor
- The doctor
- My maiden aunt
- The squire
- The butler
- The younger son
- A grandmother
- The tutor
- The governess
- Le nouveau riche
- The devotee.
- Notes:
- Publisher's catalog in back [1] p.
- "London: Printed by J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited, City Road."--colophon.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth with a gilt design of older woman holding a fan chaperoning the younger woman walking with her (based on illustration inside, p. 64).
- Athenaeum copy: John Livezey Fund.
- Athenaeum copy: "Rec'd May 22d 1883" inscribed on t.p.
- Cited in:
- Collection of British authors, 2129
- OCLC:
- 3388328
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