Charles Keene's Our People

[Keene, Charles], OUR PEOPLE SKETCHED BY CHARLES KEENE. FROM THE COLLECTION OF "MR. PUNCH" (London: Bradbury Agnew & Co., 1881).  First edition, 36 x 26cm [folio], in publisher's crimson fine linen-texture cloth w/gilt & black design & title to covers, gilt title to spine, bevelled edges, a.e.g., dark green ep.s, [i-viii], 1-156 pp. w/titlepage vignette & 404 wood engravings by Joseph Swain after Keene & 1 after Edward Corbould.  Printed by the publisher at the Whitefriars Press, London.  Binding Very Good (spine sl. faded, & extremities moderately bumped & worn); contents Near-Fine (occas. lt. foxing).  Reid 7, 19 ("among the collector's really precious books") & 131; Ray 189 ("the solidity and precision of Keene's draftsmanship make him the supreme Punch artist"); de Beaumont 241; Goldman 72.  (Inv. #748)  C$800 Home Page