[c.1860] Undated, dated from a copy held by the University of Exeter The Comic History of England

Description

Colour Plates, Illustrated, Leather Binding

A very handsome copy bound in half calf and marbled pictorial boards. Decorated with full gilt page edges, and gilt tooling in between the raised calf bands to the spine.

An uncommon example of two volumes of this comical recounting of English history bound as one.

Volume one features a hand-coloured frontispiece, as issued, and 10 further hand-coloured plates of steel-engravings. Volume two also features 10 hand-coloured plates and a frontispiece, the frontispiece being misbound to face p.2 instead of p.1 as listed.
Both volumes collated, complete.

Both also feature frequent light hearted monochrome vignette illustrations, taken from engravings by John Leech, done on wood.