【特价】1852年 ABECKETT - COMMIC HISTORY OF ENGLAND 贝克特幽默名著《滑稽英国史》珍贵初版本2册合订 20张手工上色钢版画插图 开本大小(长*宽*厚度):22 x 15x 7厘米 (320 & 304页,) 装桢:绿色布面烫金精装。 20张手工上色插图、大量文内黑白插图(200枚)。
作者及著作简介 吉尔伯特·雅培·贝克特( 1811年1月9日 - 1856年8月30日)是英国幽默大师。他的代表作就是巨著《滑稽罗马史》和《滑稽英国史》,配上伟大插图画家约翰·李奇 (John Leech)的精美插图,成为藏书界的最爱。 Gilbert Abbott à Beckett (9 January 1811 – 30 August 1856) was a great English humorist. He was born in London, the son of a lawyer, and belonged to a family claiming descent from Thomas Becket. He was educated at Westminster School and was called to the bar at Grays Inn in 1841. He edited the comic paper Figaro in London and was one of the original staff of Punch and a contributor until his death. He was an active journalist on The Times and The Morning Herald, contributed a series of light articles to The Illustrated London News, conducted in 1846 The Almanack of the Month and found time to produce some fifty or sixty plays, among them dramatized versions of Charles Dickens shorter stories, written in collaboration with Mark Lemon. He is perhaps best known as the author of , , , etc.
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