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Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English.
- Title
- Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. [New series] / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; [engraved by Orrin Smith] ; with original essays by distinguished writers.
- Author
- Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
- Publication
- London : Robert Tyas, 1841
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- Description
- vi, 385 p., [58] leaves of plates : ill.; 23 cm.
- Alternative Title
- Heads of the people
- Portraits of the English
- Subjects
- Note
- "New series"--Front covers.
- Added engraved t.p.
- Originally issued in 13 monthly pts. in 11 (the last a triple no.). Title page and other prelims. in pt. 11/13.
- Illustrations: 58 prints (incl. added t.p.) : wood engraving ; full-page. Additional wood-engraved ill. on covers of parts.
- Parts issue: Each pt. (no.) in illustrated buff paper covers, printed in greenish blue. Publisher's notices and advertisements on covers of most parts.
- Indexed In (note)
- Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray
- Contents
- The chaperon and the débutante / Mrs. Gore -- The money-lender / Douglas Jerrold -- The old squire / William Howitt -- The ballet-mistress / Douglas Jerrold -- The mute / Mrs. Gore -- The Whig / An M.P. -- The farmer / Alice -- The country schoolmaster / William Howitt -- The fashionable authoress / William Thackeray -- The basket-woman / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- The lodging-house keeper / Paul Prendergast -- The bricklayer's labourer / Mrs. S.C. Hall -- The debtor and creditor / Douglas Jerrold -- The young squire / William Howitt -- The bum-boat woman / Captain Glascock, R.N. -- The poor curate / James Smythe, Jun. -- The quack doctor / Paul Prendergast -- The pawnbroker / Douglas Jerrold -- The artists / Michael Angelo Titmarsh -- The solicitor / Leman Rede -- The dowager / A bachelor of arts -- The Tory / An M.P. -- The collegean / A bachelor of arts -- The capitalist / F.G. Tomlins -- The waiter / Paul Prendergast -- The coachman and the guard / Nimrod -- The policeman / Paul Prendergast -- The parish clerk / Paul Prendergast -- The Spitalfields weaver / Arthur Armitage -- The sporting gentleman / Nimrod -- The barrister / Laman Blanchard -- The judge / Laman Blanchard -- The bishop / Laman Blanchard -- The jockey / Nimrod -- The British soldier / R.H. Horne -- The Chelsea pensioner / R.H. Horne -- The British sailor / E. Howard -- The Greenwich pensioner / E. Howard -- The radical M.P. / Akolouthos -- Corporation heads / Laman Blanchard.
- Call Number
- Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Heads 1841) 06-95
- OCLC
- 15268793
- Author
- Meadows, Joseph Kenny, 1790-1874.
- Title
- Heads of the people, or, Portraits of the English. [New series] / drawn by Kenny Meadows ; [engraved by Orrin Smith] ; with original essays by distinguished writers.
- Imprint
- London : Robert Tyas, 1841 (London : Vizetelly and Co.)
- Indexed In:
- Van Duzer, H.S. Thackeray, 82
- Local Note
- Arents copy: Parts issue; partly unopened. Provenance: Albert M. Cohn (bookplate).
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Smith, Orrin, 1799-1843. Wood engraverJerrold, Douglas, 1803-1857.Thackeray, William Makepeace, 1811-1863.Hunt, Leigh, 1784-1859.Horne, R. H. (Richard H.), 1802-1884.Cohn, Albert m. (Albert Mayer) Former owner
- Research Call Number
- Arents BIP (Thackeray, W. Heads 1841) 06-95