Rates and taxes and how they were collected / edited by T. Hood.

Record ID: 
67437
Accession number: 
GSC 111509
Title: 
Rates and taxes and how they were collected / edited by T. Hood.
Published: 
London : Groombridge and Sons, 1866.
Credit Line: 
Gift of Nancy McIntosh.
Edition: 

First ed.

Contents: 

Rates and taxes / by Thomas Archer -- Like to like / by W.J. Prowse -- The dog-tax / by Tom Hood -- The poor-rate unfolds a tale / by T.W. Robertson -- The income-tax reads a story, found in a drawer, and called "Maxwell and I" / by W.S. Gilbert -- Another parochial reads three chapters of a policeman's ms / by C.W. Scott -- United Squashleigh / by Thomas Archer.

Notes: 

Presentation copy from W.S. Gilbert to "Kitten" (Lucy Agnes Turner), whom he married in 1867 with inscription: "To Kitten from her Old Boy 1st Dec. /65"--Half t.p.
Caption/running title for W.S. Gilbert selection: Maxwell and I.
Division title for same: The income tax.

Associated names: 

Hood, Tom, 1835-1874, editor.
Archer, Thomas, 1830-1893.
Prowse, William Jeffery, 1836-1870.
Robertson, T. W. (Thomas William), 1829-1871.
Scott, Clement, 1841-1904.
Gilbert, W. S. (William Schwenck), 1836-1911.
Gilbert, Lucy Agnes, Lady, 1847-1936, former owner.
McIntosh, Nancy, 1874-1954, donor.