MRS. CAUDLE'S CURTAIN LECTURES

Book Description

London: Bradbury, Evans & Co., 1866.. xx,190,[10]pp. Small quarto. Original publisher's plum cloth, elaborately stamped in gilt and blind, a.e.g. Color chromolithographed frontis and copious text illustrations by Charles Keene. Title printed in red and black. Binding rather rubbed, with some shallow fraying at spine ends, some occasional light foxing and marginal soiling, but a good, sound copy, with a decent association interest (see below). First illustrated edition, printed on blue tinted paper. Forrest Reid's copy, with his ownership signature. In his monograph on the ILLUSTRATORS OF THE EIGHTEEN SIXTIES, Reid describes this work as "Keene's masterpiece in book illustration...the illustrations show Keene at his best...Yet Ruskin found this artist 'coarse', and Mrs. Meynell, even more sensitive, found him 'obscene'." REID, p.131.

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