1866 Mrs. Caudle's Curtain Lectures

Description

First Edition, Illustrated, Original Binding, Publishers' Original Binding

First edition.

Illustrated with a colour frontispiece and numerous in-text images.

A comic series of Mrs Caudle's pedantic and petty lectures to her husband in bed just before night time, when he has to lie and listen. The series was originally published in famous periodical Punch in 1845.

Written by Douglas William Jerrold, an English dramatist and writer.

Illustrated by Charles Samuel Keene, an English artist and illustrator, who worked in black and white.

With the publisher's advertisements to the rear.