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OUR PEOPLE SKETCHED BY CHARLES KEENE. FROM THE COLLECTION OF MR. PUNCHby Keene, Charles
London: Bradbury Agnew & Co., 1881. First edition, 36 x 26cm [folio], in publisher's crimson fine linen-texture cloth w/gilt & black design & title to covers, gilt title to spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., dark green ep.s, [i-viii], 1-156 pp. w/titlepage vignette & 404 wood engravings by Joseph Swain after Keene & 1 after Edward Corbould. Printed by the publisher at the Whitefriars Press, London. Binding Very Good (spine sl. faded, & extremities moderately bumped & worn); contents Near-Fine (occas. lt. foxing). Reid 7, 19 ("among the collector's really precious books") & 131; Ray 189 ("the solidity and precision of Keene's draftsmanship make him the supreme 'Punch' artist"); de Beaumont 241; Goldman 72.
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