Heads of the People: Or, Portraits of the English, 2. ciltCarey & Hart, 1841 - 370 sayfa A popular work, to which Thackeray and Jerrold contributed some of their earliest sketches. These literary sketches were written to the pictures and not, as some have imagined, the pictures drawn in illustration of the letterpress. cf. Academy, 1874, II, 360. |
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