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The greatest plague of life or the adventures of a lady in search of a good servant. Edited by the brothers mayhew
1892réf. AQ33040London: George Routledge and Sons 1892. 2 285pp 1. With an engraved frontispiece and engraved vignette to title and a further 11 engraved plates by George Cruikshank. Contemporary gilt-tooled dark green half-morocco green cloth boards marbled edges. Lightly rubbed and marked. Marbled endpapers contemporary inked gift inscription to recto of front blank fly-leaf plates foxed. A satirical novel from the brothers Augustus 1826-75 and Henry 1812-87 Mayhew illustrated by eminent British caricaturist George Cruikshank. Henry Mayhew one of the founders of Punch Magazine was also known as a social researcher and reformist whilst his brother Augustus was a journalist and editor of The Comic Almanac between 1848 and 1850. . 12mo. George Routledge and Sons hardcover
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