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THE HATCHET THROWERS.
Greenwood, James

- London : John Camden Hotten, Piccadilly 1866 - 8vo. - later quarter leather, cloth, edges gilt, title, author and decorations gilt-stamped on spine, marbled slipcase - 164 pages - Order Nr. 109401 - Price: $ 250.00

First edition. Greenwood (1831-1926) was an English social critic, concerned about the plight of those in London's workhouses and the working poor. Frontispiece and thirty-six illustrations, tinted and drawn on wood by Ernest Griset, Edward Hodnett notes his "good animal and insect illustrations for each of the three far-fetched and sometimes offensive narratives by James Greenwood." See Hodnett, Five Centuries of English Book Illustration (Aldershot: Gower Publishing, 1988), 155-7. Marbled pastedowns and free endpapers. List of illustrations. Some scuffing at edges. Slipcase worn at edges.

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