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...political subjects and were first published somewhat over a century ago. The oldest of those being exhibited is one of St. George and the Dragon published in 1782. Among the most interesting of the others is one of seven original drawings which were made for Punch by John Leech from 1845-1859. These drawings represent the reactions of the common people to a financial panic which occurred in London at that time. Another of particular current interest is the graphic representation of a man trying to figure out his income tax statement. At the top of the picture...
...they, like Leverhulme, cared little for literature, and so it came about that first editions of Thackeray were knocked down for $6 or so, while Lawrence Gomme paid $3,200 for a collection of 5,000 caricatures in 24 folio volumes, including original drawings by Dowland, Cruikshank, Aiken, and Leech; M. J. Swanson paid $190 for a book on corpulency by one William Wadd, which contains an autograph of Daniel Lambert (his weight was 739 pounds); Maurice Hoog, dealer, paid $1,800 for a collection of 1,200 engraved trade-cards and billheads of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries...
...beautiful wife, Beatrice, cannot become a mother without miraculous ministration, therapeutic aid or both. Now Beatrice is loved by an amorous nobleman, also young, who disguises himself as a doctor and comes, at her husband's request, to treat her with Mandragola, a root whose properties, the noble leech insists, will permit the aged merchant to realize his ambition, at least to all appearances. Thus the old man soon rejoices in the promise of an heir, and the young couple is also very well content...
...BACK OF THE BOOK-Margaret Leech-Boni & Liveright ($2.00). Vergie Stilson was 28 years of age and not unattractive. She pictured herself as "an author of brilliant subtlety,"until she found that her embryo novel was no more than a bundle of disjointed reminiscences. Meanwhile, she worked in the offices of Good Taste. Men came and went. There was Roger, the kindly ironist, who married her young sister, "Pet,"after long courtship of herself. There was little Crump, who had all the charm of a puppy dog. There was Roy Peck, the publicist with the genial personal touch. She loved...
...collection also includes Punch's Pocketbooks, illustrated by John Leech and others; Comic Alamanacks, by Cruikshanks; and the very rare Kate Greenaway Almanacks...