Punch’s Letters to his Son. Corrected and Edited, From the Mss. in the Alsatian Library. With Twenty-four Illustrations by Kenney Meadows.

  • Jerrold, Douglas
  • London: Published by Wm. S. Orr & Co. 1843
  • Wolff 3673.

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Description

FIRST EDITION, 8vo, pp. [iii]-viii, 164 + frontispiece and 22 plates. Half-title and ads discarded. Contemporary half calf, marbled boards, spine divided by raised bands gilt, black morocco label, other compartments tooled in gilt, marbled edges and endpapers. Just a touch of spotting. A little rubbed, some peeling to leather, chip of marbled paper torn away from front board. Bookplate of L. Morley to front pastedown, some marginal pencil marks.

Notes

This copy of Jerrold's parody of Lord Chesterfield's earlier epistolary guidance has a frontispiece and 22 plates, which matches the copies in the BL and NYPL. the 24th Kenny Meadows illustration as called for by the title-page could be construed as the vignette on the title-page or that on p. 7; Wolff calls for 'frontispiece, vignette title-page and 23 illustrations.'

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