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Heads of the people; or, Portraits of the English. Drawn by Kenny Meadows.
Athenaeum of Philadelphia - British Imprints 1840- Heads
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- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- England--Social life and customs--19th century.
- England.
- Genre:
- Boards (Binding)
- Leather bindings (Binding)
- Drawings (visual works)
- Annotations (Provenance)
- Physical Description:
- 2 v. fronts., illus., plates. 20 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London, Willoughby & co., [1840-41]
- Notes:
- Vol. 1 has added t.-p., illus.
- A popular work, to which Thackeray and Jerrold contributed some of their earliest sketches. These literary sketches were written to the pictures and not, as some have imagined, the pictures drawn in illustration of the letterpress. cf. Academy, 1874, II, 360.
- Local Notes:
- Athenaeum copy: Only hold vol 2. Marbled blue boards with blind stamped black leather on corners and spine. Gilt on spine.
- Athenaeum copy: Gift: Koblenzer.
- Athenaeum copy: Includes note on a separate scrap paper that reads: "Mrs. Chapman was an American well known in connection with the anti-slavery movement, a friend of Harriet Martineau".
- OCLC:
- 1003150
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