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Condición: Good. 4to. Stapled Wrap [ca. 40 pp.]. B&W Plates. Very Good with Sunning, Age Toning.

Folio. 208, 208 pages. Complete set. Interleaved with 51 chromolithographic portraits. Beautifully restored, original Hardcover (half-leather with orginal spine (gilt letttering and ornament). With new, linen-covered boards, using the original pastedowns and endpapers. A stunning Volume in excellent condition. All illustrations in wonderful colour. Portraits include: 1. Caricature of Marie Joseph Louis Adolphe Thiers, President of France. Caption read "Faute-de-mieux Premier" / 2. Caricature of Richard Edmund St Lawrence Boyle, 9th Earl of Cork and 9th Earl of Orrery (1829-1904). Caption read "Master of Her Majesty's Buckhounds" / 3. Caricature of Dr Frederick Quin (1799 - 1878). Caption read "Homoeopathic Society" / 4. Men of the Day No.38: Caricature of Mr. James Anthony Froude. Caption reads: "He created Henry VIII exploded Mary Stuart and demolished Elizabeth" / 5. Caricature of Wilkie Collins (1824-1889). Caption read "The Novelist who invented Sensation" / 6. Caricature of Spencer Horatio Walpole (1806-1898). Caption read "He defended Hyde Park" / 7. Caricature of John Ruskin. Caption read "The realisation of the Ideal" / 8. Caricature of George Grenfell Glyn M.P. (1824-1887). Caption read "The Whip" / 9. Alexander William Kinglake (18091891) - British politician, military historian, writer and traveler. Caricature / 10. Caricature of William Henry Smith (1825 1891). Caption read "Newspapers" / 11. Caricature of Sir Roundell Palmer. Caption reads: "He refused the Woolsack, and voted against the Disestablishment of the Irish Church" / 12. Caricature of Mr.John Francis Maguire MP. Caption reads: "A Home Ruler" / 13. Caricature of Charles Kingsley (1819-1875). Caption read "The Apostle of the Flesh" / 14. Caricature of John Tyndall. Caption read "The Scientific Use of the Imagination" / 15. Caricature of Reverend John Cumming. Caption read "The End of the World" / 16. Caricature of The Rt Hon Gathorne Hardy MP DCL. Caption reads: "Conservative" / 17. Caricature of Mr William Hepworth Dixon. Caption reads: "He discovered New America and Free Russia" / 18. Caricature of King Amadeus of Spain. Caption reads "He would be a King" / 19. Caricature of Sir Wilfrid Lawson, 2nd Baronet MP (1829-1906). Caption reads: "Permissive Prohibition" / 20. Caricature of The Hon Hamilton Fish. Caption reads: "Consequential damages" / 21. Caricature of The Hon. Charles Sumner (1811-1874). Caption reads: "The Massive Grievance" / 22. Caricature of Ulysses S. Grant. Caption read "Captain, Tanner, Farmer, General, Imperator" / 23. Caricature of Thomas Hughes M.P. (1822-1896). Caption read "Tom Brown" / 24. Caricature of Mr S Morley MP. Caption reads: "Dissent" / 25. Caricature of Sir Arthur Wellesley KG PC MP, 2nd Duke of Wellington. Caption read "The son of Waterloo" / 26. Caricature of Frederic Leighton (1830-1896). Caption read "A sacrifice to the Graces" / 27. Caricature of Michael Costa (1808-1884). Caption read "Orchestration" / 28. Caricature of Mr George Leeman MP. Caption read "A Yorkshire Solicitor" / 29. Caricature of Horace Greeley. Caption reads: "Anything to beat Grant" / 30. Caricature of The Rt Hon Edward Pleydell-Bouverie MP. Caption reads: "He did not decline the Speakership." / etc. Sprache: english.