The Comic History of Rome. Illustrated by John Leech. - Softcover

Beckett, Gilbert Abbott; Leech, John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1241425256 ISBN 13: 9781241425258

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions, 2011

Synopsis

Title: The Comic History of Rome ... Illustrated by John Leech.

Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions

The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC.

The HISTORY OF THE ANCIENT WORLD collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. Titles in this series include lectures, compiled sketches, and chronological discourses on Greece, Rome, and other early European and African civilisations. The collection also has a selection of physical and classical geography texts.

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British Library
Beckett, Gilbert Abbott.; Leech, John;
1897?
xviii, 418 p. ; 4º.
9039.i.11.

About this title

About the Author:

John Leech (1817-1864) was a well regarded English caricaturist, whose works often appeared in Punch and the London News. An accomplished lithographer and engraver, Leech's illustrations illuminated the original edition of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

About this edition

• Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1241425256
• ISBN 13: 9781241425258
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 468