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The Comic History of Rome

by Gilbert Abbott À Beckett

1850 · Fantasy · History · Humor

Open Library OL3266331W

The Comic History of Rome was published by Bradbury and Evans, with text by the English humorist Gilbert Abbott à Beckett and comic illustrations by John Leech, famous for his illustrations for the novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. In his introduction, à Beckett wrote that, "The writer of this book is animated by an earnest wish to aid, as far as he is able, in the project of combining instruction with amusement.

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Gilbert Abbott À Beckett (1811–1856) is represented here by 1 public-domain title, including The Comic History of Rome. This page is a shelf list: the books are read on Open Library, not stored here. More of this shelf for Gilbert Abbott À Beckett.

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