People I have met / by E. C. Grenville-Murray ; illustrated with fifty-four tinted engravings from designs by Fred. Barnard.

Author/Creator:: Murray, Eustace Clare Grenville, 1824-1881.
Publication:: London : Vizetelly, 1883 (London : Printed by J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited)
Format/Description:: Book
286 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
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Subjects:: Characters and characteristics -- Humor.
England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.
Form/Genre:: English wit and humor.
Pictorial cloth bindings (Binding)
Contents:: The old earl
The dowager
The rector
The curate
The family solicitor
The chaperon
The ornamental dorector
The promising son
The favorite daughter
The college don
The retired colonel
The bachelor
The old maid
The spendthrift
The usurer
The rich widow
The newspaper editor
The doctor
My maiden aunt
The squire
The butler
The younger son
A grandmother
The tutor
The governess
Le nouveau riche
The devotee.
Notes:: Publisher's catalog in back [1] p.
"London: Printed by J.S. Virtue and Co., Limited, City Road."--colophon.
Local notes:: Athenaeum copy: Bound in green cloth with a gilt design of older woman holding a fan chaperoning the younger woman walking with her (based on illustration inside, p. 64).
Athenaeum copy: John Livezey Fund.
Athenaeum copy: "Rec'd May 22d 1883" inscribed on t.p.
Cited in:: Collection of British authors, 2129
Contributor:: Barnard, Frederick, 1846-1896. , Illustrator
Vizetelly and Co. , Publisher
Virtue & Company Ltd. , Printer
OCLC:: 3388328