“One Enduring Plum-Cake”

Pictures of Life & Character … from the Collection of Mr. Punch [First through Fifth Series. Complete].

London: Bradbury and Evans, 1854, 1857, 1860, 1863, 1869.

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First edition, bound from the parts. Each series with several hundred wood-engraved illustrations after Leech. 1 vols. Oblong folio. “One Enduring Plum-Cake”. Contemporary half red morocco, a.e.g., original blue pictorial front wrappers bound-in at back. Rebacked to style, new front endsheets. Some minor paper flaws, chiefly at margins. Very good. Houfe 35; cf. also Ray 139 (for 1886 collected ed.).

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Complete series of the celebrated Pictures of John Leech, of which Thackeray exclaimed, “This book is better than plum-cake at Christmas. It is one enduring plum-cake …” One of the great visual repositories of mid-Victorian English life and humor.