HOOK (Theodore): The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bon Mots, Puns and Hoaxes, with a new life of the author, portraits by Maclise and d'Orsay, caricatures, and facsimiles. , London: John Camden Hotten, [1873];

1st thus, pp. viii, 583 + 32 cat. dated 1873. Portrait frontis. and vignette title-page showing Hook's house near Putney. Orig. royal blue cloth dec. black and gilt. Spine edges a little rubbed and slight damp discolouration at upper corner of fr. cover, but overall a very good copy, lavishly illustrated. Pages 1-38 contain a memoir of Hook, authorship of which is not known. (Book ref. 3483)  £54.00

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