The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures … of Theodore Hook, 1889, VG

Hook, Theodore. The Choice Humorous Works, Ludicrous Adventures, Bons Mots, Puns, and Hoaxes of Theodore Hook; A New Edition with Life of the Author, Portraits by Maclise and D'Orsay, Caricatures, and Facsimiles (London: Chatto and Windus, 1889).

English, Very Good, HC, 8vo, 7 3/4" x 5 1/2," 583 pp., including illustrations, + plates + 31-pp. catalog of books published by Chatto & Windus.

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Dark blue cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering and decorations on front and spine. Covers have slight fading along spine, mild wear to extremities, and a slight lean toward fore-edge if laid flat, else clean and intact. Pages have a former owner's signature in blue pen on front free endpaper, light age toning throughout, and slight wear to extremities, else clean and intact. A few black-and-white plates and in-text illustrations included. Tipped in back is a 31-page 1899 catalog of books published by Chatto & Windus. Theodore Hook (1788-1841) was an English author, composer, and civil servant on Mauritius. Hook is perhaps best-known for his witticisms and practical jokes. This collection includes a number of his essays, poetry, and other written works. Among them are "The Ramsbottom Papers," "Political Songs and Squibs," "Tentamen; or, an Essay Towards the History of Whittington, Some Time Lord Mayor of London," "Miscellanies, in Verse and Prose," and "Anecdotes, Hoaxes, and Jests."