Poets' wit and humour / Selected by W.H. Wills ; illustrated with one hundred engravings from drawings by Charles Bennett and George H. Thomas.

Accession number: 
PML 142799
Author: 
Wills, William Henry, 1810-1880.
Published: 
London : Bell and Daldy, 186, Fleet Street, 1861.
Description: 
[8], 283, [1] p. : ill. (wood engravings) ; 23 cm
Credit: 
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes: 

"Chiswick Press:--Printed by Whittingham and Wilkins, Tooks Court, Chancery Lane."--Colophon.

Binding: 
Publisher's brown cloth with central white diamond paper onlay with printed vignette and initials "R.D." (i.e. Robert Dudley), blocked in gold and blind and bound by Leighton, Son and Hodge with their ticket (Ball 53b).
Provenance: 
Signature of Forrest Reid on front flyleaf; gift inscription to Alice Adams (?), dated May 26th, 1862; from the libraries of J.N. Hart and Gordon N. Ray.
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