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Heads of the people, or : Portraits of the English / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; with original essays by distinguished writers.

DA 118 .H5 1841

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Format:: Book
Contributor:: Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.; Jerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857.; Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
Language:: English
Subjects (All):: England--Social life and customs--19th century.; England.; Satire, English.; Caricatures and cartoons.; Manners and customs.
Physical Description:: 385 pages, 57 leaves of plates : portraits ; 22 cm; 8vo.
Other Title:: Portraits of the English
Place of Publication:: London : Robert Tyas, 1841.
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.
Notes:: Added t.p., engraved.; Includes early writings of Douglas William Jerrold and William Makepeace Thackeray.
OCLC:: 15268793

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