SEYMOUR, Robert (illustrator).
Journal of a Landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon,
Journal of a Landsman from Portsmouth to Lisbon,
on board His Majesty's Ship.
Stock Code 114131
London, Thomas M'lean, 1831
Robert Seymour (1798 – 20 April 1836) was a noted caricaturist who illustrated The Pickwick Papers. He committed suicide after Charles Dickens argued with him over the nature of the illustrations.
The frontispiece, 'Landsman Getting On Board H.M.S.', is not in Abbey but is uniform with other plates and so present as issued.
First edition; folio (34 x 25.5 cm); complete with 24 hand-coloured lithograph plates, 10 of which small vignettes on India paper tipped into text, including frontispiece, light scattered foxing, a few creases and small marginal tears to a couple of plates, plates bright; later half calf, cloth boards with gilt title stamped to upper board, gilt lettering piece to spine, boards slightly rubbed, small split to upper foot of spine, inner hinges cracked but holding, otherwise a very good copy; [2], 26pp.
Abbey (Life), 346.
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