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John Leech

Male : Book illustrator, esp of R S Surtees's work & Caricaturist
Nationality : English Place of Birth : London

Date of Birth : 1817 Date of Death : 1864 Age : 47

Education : Charterhouse & St Bart's (Left without a degree)
1835-1850
Etchings and Sketchings
(1835)
The Human Face Divine and De Vino
(1835)
Bell's Life in London
(1836)
Droll Doings
(1837-8)
Funny Characters
(1837-8)
American broad Grins
(1838)
The Children of the Mobility
(1841)
The Procelain Tower
(1841)
Jack the Giant Killer
(1843)
Nursery Ditties
(1844)
The Comic Arithmetic
(1844)
Hints on Life
(1845)
The Handbook of Joking
(1847)
The Rising Generation : A Series of 12 Drawings on Stone
(1848 Punch, London)
Ballads of Bon Gaultier
(1849)

1851-1860
Young Troublesome, or Master Jacky's Holidays
(c1852 Bradbury & Evans)
Pictures of Life & Character from the Collection of Mr punch
(1854-69 Bradbury & Agnew)
- 5 parts in 3 vols
Offered in 1991 for £220
Pictures from the Collection of Mr Punch
(1855 Bradbury & Evans)
The Militia Man at Home and Abroad
(1857)
The Encyclopaedia of Rural Sports
(1858)
The Cyclopaedia of Wit and Humour
(1858)
Soapey Sponge
(1859)
Paul Prendergast
(1859)
Mr Briggs and His Doings
(1860)

After 1861
The Follies of the Year
(1864)
Follies of the Year : A Series of Coloured Etchings from Punch's Pocket Books 1844-64
(1866 Bradbury & Evans)
Carols of Cockayne
(1869)
Catalogue of an Exhibition of Works by John Leech held at the Grolier Club
(1914 Grolier Club) - 240
Pictures of Life & Character : from the Collection of "Mr Punch" Vols 1-3
(nd. London)
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Gilbert A'BECKETT : The Comic Latin Grammar
(1840)
The Quizzology of the British Drama
(1846)
The Comic History of Rome
(1852 Bradbury & Evans)
The Comic History of England
(1851-52 Bradbury & Evans)
The Comic History of Rome
(nd. c1860 Bradbury Agnew)
The Comic History of England
(1864 Punch Office) - 2 vols in one
The Comic History of England
(c1880 Bradbury & Evans) - New Ed
BARHAM : The Ingoldsby Legends
(1840)
Hon G BERKELEY : Reminiscences of a Huntsman
(1854)
A Month in the Forests of France
(1857)
W Y BROWNE : Fun, Poetry and Pathos
(1850)
Henry COCKTON : Stanley Thom
(1841)
DANIEL : Merrie England in the Olden Time
(1842)
Madame DE CHATELAIN : The Silver Swan : A Legendary Tale
(1847) (c1860 Griffith & Farran)
Mrs CROSLAND : Toil and Trial
(1849)
Charles DICKENS : A Christmas Carol
(1843-4)
The Battle of Life
(1846)
The Haunted Man
(1847-8)

John DIX : Local Legends and Rambling Rhymes
(1839)
FORESTER : Life and Adventures of Oliver Goldsmith
(1848)
J FRANCIS : Newton Dogvane
(1859)
S W FULLOM : The Great Highway
(1854)
F GREENWOOD : The Path of Roses
(1858)
T C HALIBURTON : The Clockmaker
(1840)
George HODDER : Sketches of Life & Character
(1845)
Reynolds HOLE : A Little Tour in Ireland
(1859 London) - By An Oxonian
(1878 London)
T HOOK : Jack Brag
(1837)
D JERROLD : Mrs Caudle's Curtain Lectures
(1846)
A Man Made of Money
(1849)
Percival LEIGH : The Fiddle-Faddle Fashion Book
(1840)
W H MAXWELL : Hillside and Border Sketches
(1847)
The Fortunes of Hector O'Halloran
(1853)
Thomas MILLET : Picturesque Sketches of London
(1852)
John MILLS : The Fliers of the Hunt
(1859)
Life of a Foxhound
(1861)
Howard PAUL : Dashes of American Humour
(1852)
C C PEPPER : Written Caricatures
(1841)
Paul PRENDERGAST : The Comic English Grammar
(1840)
RUFFINI : The Paragreens
(1856)
Albert SMITH : The Adventures of Mr Ledbury
(1844)
The Fortunes of the Scattergood Family
(1845)
The Struggle and Adventures of Christopher Tadpole
(1848)
The Natural History of Evening Parties
(1849)
A R SMITH : The Wassail Bowl
(1843)
Harriet Beecher STOWE : Uncle Tom's Cabin
(1852)
Peter STYLES : The Bachelors Walk in a Fog
(1840)
R S SURTEES : Mr Sponge's Sporting Tour
(1853)
Handley Cross
(1854)
Ask Mama
(1858)
Plain or Ringlets
(1860)
Mr Facey-Romford's Hounds
(1864)
Mrs TROLLOPE : The Barnabys in America
(1843)
Jessie Phillips
(1844)
M F TUPPER : The Crock of Gold
(1849)
N P WILLIS : Pencillings by the Way
(1839)

READING
F G Kitton : John Leech - Artist & Humorist - A biographical Sketch
(1884 Geo Redway, London. New Ed)
Harry Thornber : John Leech
(1890)
W P Frith : John Leech - His Life & Work
(1891 Richard Bentley, London) - 2 vols
June Rose : The Drawings of John Leech
(1950 Art & Technics)

Related Writers

Oliver Goldsmith


See also

Folio Society
King Penguins
William Makepeace Thackeray
Frances Milton Trollope