The Comic Album: A Book for Every Table

First edition. Quarto. Printed on various color leaves, with a publisher’s advertisement on recto of final leaf. Humorous articles, verses, etc., by Dickens, Thackeray, and others. Illustrated throughout with wood engravings designed by Alfred Forrester (known under the pseudonym of Alfred Crowquill), John Leech, and others. Contemporary bookseller’s ticket and later owner’s small bookplate on front pastedown, autograph note in pencil on front free endpaper. Contemporary half polished levant and pebbled cloth over boards, gilt decorated spine with red titling label, cream endpapers, all edges gilt. Head and tail of spine and one corner tip neatly refurbished in matching leather, joints are rubbed with light wear at corners, a few small stains on endpapers, very good.