8vo. viii, 277pp, [3]. With and additional engraved title page, 12 engraved plates, and 116 wood-engravings in the text. Original publisher's bevelled green cloth, stamped in gilt and blind, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked. Internally clean and crisp. Presentation copy, inked inscription to head of title page: To Thomas Barlow Esq. MD. &c. &c. / with the regards of George Cruikshank / March 23rd. 1876'.

A new edition of engraver and caricaturist George Cruikshank's (1792-1878) popular profusely illustrated comical compilation of satirical sketches, edited by humourist Gilbert Abbot à Beckett (1811-1856), initially published in twelve monthly parts in 1845.

Thomas Barlow (1845-1945), physician, primarily known for his original research on scurvy in infants, sometime medical registrar at the Hospital for Sick Children, Great Ormond Street, and from 1899 physician- extraordinary to Queen Victoria, being present at her deathbed.