The Comic History of England

xv, 634 pp. 8 5/8 x 6 1/4. Original red cloth, illustration of three men in a boat on front cover, gilt titles, yellow endpapers. Color frontispiece, reproductions of 200 engravings and 20 page illustrations by John Leech. The classic work by one of the original staff of Punch magazine, the weekly British humor magazine. A'Beckett also wrote the Comic History of Rome (to which John Leech also added illustrations), Comic Blackstone, etc., as well as two operas for which his wife composed the music.