Life and Labours of Hablot Knight Browne "Phiz"
London: Chapman and Hall, 1884.
Price: $250.00
About the item
No. 107 of 250 copies, initialed by the author. With 130 illustrations. 1 vols. Royal quarto. Original brown pictorial cloth. Covers slightly worn, stain to upper left corner of front cover, corners bumped. Title page has two perforations and stains from old cellotape repair, otherwise a good, serviceable copy.
Item #225970
A lavish production; all vignettes are on china paper, tipped in; all plates are on fine paper; and the volume has an engraved portrait frontispiece of the great illustrator, done by his son Walter G. Browne, and signed in pencil by Browne and the engraver, C.O. Murray.