Mariage

pp. xx, 190 [10]. Small quarto. 210 mm. All edges gilt. Unusual color chromolithographed frontis and 60 wood engraved text illustrations by Charles Keene. Title printed in red and black. Original publisher's full plum cloth binding, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind. Binding slightly rubbed, but still attractive. The complex binding design is by John Leighton, and was executed by Edmonds & Remnants (with their label). Douglas William Jerrold (1803-1857) was an English dramatist and writer who, from the 1830s to 1850s, was absolutely at the centre of literary London. A friend of Dickens and Thackeray, both pall-bearers at his funeral. Jerrold was an editor, playwright, journalist, novelist and public wit and among the most popular writers in Britain. It was 'Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures' that really captured the public's imagination. Serialized in Punch, they were lively studies of female domination in Victorian society. The illustrations here by Charles Kenne (1823-1891), who began to draw for Punch in 1852, are considered a masterpiece in book illustration. Ray. 'Illustrator and the Book in England' #188. **PRICE JUST REDUCED! BINDINGS NW52