319 - Abbott to Beckett, G. The Comic History of Rome. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., circa 1855. XII, 308 pages. With 10 colored plates, some heightened with white, and numerous wood engravings by John Leech. Contemporary green cloth with gilt spine title, cover illustration, and gilt edges (one spine joint slightly cracked).

Abbott to Beckett, G. The Comic History of Rome. London, Bradbury, Agnew & Co., circa 1855. XII, 308 pages. With 10 colored plates, some heightened with white, and numerous wood engravings by John Leech. Contemporary green cloth with gilt spine title, cover illustration, and gilt edges (one spine joint slightly cracked). Cf. Tooley 298. - The caricaturist, highly esteemed by Dickens and Ruskin, among others, was for over 20 years the 'spiritual leader' of 'Punch' (Rümann, Das illustrierte Buch, page 86). - Half-title with the subtitle 'from the founding of the city to the end of the commonwealth'. - Publisher Wolfgang Metzler's bookplate on the pastedown and small monogram stamp 'WM' on the endpaper. Half-title with handwritten dedication in English, dated 'Southford, 1874'. - Some foxing.