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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech. Two Volumes.

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THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech. Two Volumes.

by A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott

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Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London: Ca., 1880 Two Volumes. Illustrated with twenty full page hand colored plates with original tissue guards and two hundred woodcuts by John Leech. Title pages printed in red and black with a comic drawing of Clio instructing the Young British Lion in history. Top edges gilt. Bookseller's label of R.M. Johnson, Scranton, PA in both volumes. Marbled endpapers. 220mm. Disbound. Original detached polished leather boards ruled in gold. Original gilt decorated spines worn with loss. A very accurate reprint of the first edition. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 6 Language: eng. No Binding. Very Good.

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE COMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND. With Twenty Coloured Etchings, and Two Hundred Woodcuts by John Leech. Two Volumes.
Author
A'Beckett, Gilbert Abbott
Book Condition
Used - Very Good
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Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Bradbury, Agnew & Co., London: Ca.
Date Published
1880
Keywords
ENGLAND GREAT BRITAIN SETS TWO VOLUMES HUMOR COMIC HISTORY OF GILBERT ABBOTT A'BECKETT ILLUSTRATED COLOR JOHN LEECH VICTORIAN SATIRE CARICATURE
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Ron Lieberman, has been an antiquarian bookseller, rare book appraiser, and library consultant for Fifty years. His firm, The Family Album, has issued a series of exceptional catalogs and bibliographic references in a variety of fields, including: Incunabula; Pennsylvania-Americana; German-Americana; Fine Book Bindings; Early Photographica; Printing History & Typography; Classics from the Great Scholar / Printers; Etc. He was the instructor for a series of valuable workshops and courses in the history, taste, and technique of book collecting. He frequently lectures before professional groups of librarians and archivists on: the book trade; collection and building security; disaster preparedness; appraisals; and preservation, conservation, and binding. He has also often appeared on radio and television popularizing the pleasant hobby of antique book collecting. His expert opinion on the book collecting market; values of archives and manuscripts; collection preservation & security; historic photographs; and the value of rare books has been sought by sources as diverse as: the Historical & Museum Commission of PA; the PA State Library; the Library of Congress; the Smithsonian Institution; the FBI; American Bible Society; Money Magazine; Kipplinger Magazine; Conservation Centers; Warmans Antique Price Guides; U.S.A. Today; as well as Universities, Colleges, and Historical Societies throughout the United States. As one of the organizers of the World Library Fund, Mr. Lieberman provides professional analyses of library collections, and helps plan library development for public and private institutions in the United States and abroad. He was a Member of the Board of Governors of the Antiquarian Booksellers Association of America (A.B.A.A.), and Chairman of the A.B.A.A. Security Committee. He was a long-time regular member of the Security Committee of the Rare Book and Manuscript Section (RBMS) of the American Library Association (ALA); and was the Past President of the Middle Atlantic Chapter, A.B.A.A. Mr. Lieberman was also, for many years, a consulting editor and contributor to the Haworth Press journal: "College & Undergraduate Libraries" American Library Association (ALA); + ACRL/RBMS [For 35 Continuous Years] // PA Library Association (PLA) // Bibliographical Society of America // Middle Atlantic Regional Archives Conference (MARAC) // Society for the History of Authorship, Readership, and Publishing (SHARP) // Philobiblon Club // Etc. Etc.

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