Very Good

Hardcover

1997

Art & Photography

Morris L. Cohen

088363497X

Includes 8 Prints

Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc

1st Edition

TITLE:
The Bench and Bar: Great Legal Caricatures From Vanity Fair By Spy

AUTHOR:
Morris L. Cohen

PUBLISHER:
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates, Inc

FORMAT:
Hardcover with Dust Jacket (9 1/2 x 12) Unclipped jacket price is $35.00

YEAR PUBLISHED:
1997 - 1st edition (ISBN: 088363497X)

DESCRIPTION:
Includes 100 color plates and 8 prints in rear pocket.

The portraits of leaders of English society that appeared in Vanity Fair between 1869 and 1914 were an essential chapter in the long and lively history of English caricature. Among the most popular were those of English lawyers and judges drawn between 1873 and 1909 by Leslie Ward (1851-1922), best known by his pen name, Spy. Ward's drawings, and the often bitingly sarcastic biographies that accompanied them, exposed prominent figures of the legal establishment to the sharp light of satire. A prolific caricaturist, Ward was knighted in 1918.

Ward's subjects included judges of the highest and lowest levels of the judicial hierarchy, barristers and solicitors, as well as lawyers who achieved greater fame as politicians, statesmen, or in totally unrelated occupations. They included great scholars like Sir James Fitzjames Stephen; the Lord Chief Justice of England Richard Webster; Henry Fielding Dickens; Rufus Isaacs, King's Counsel and Member of Parliament; Anthony Hawkins, author of The Prisoner of Zenda and other adventure novels; and Edward Marshall Hall, the famous criminal trial lawyer.

CONDITION:
Overall condition of this book is very good. Has remainder mark on lower edge. No writing or names within. Binding is square and tight. Very clean copy with all prints in fine condition.

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