Apes and Angels: The Irishman in Victorian Caricature
City of Washington: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1971. Hardcover. 8vo. Good / Good. Item #003661
Green cloth with gilt lettering. xi, 126 p.p. B&W illustrations. Foxing to top edge of text block, Staining to spine. Bumping to spine ends. Slight bowing to boards. Wear and chafing to extremities of dust jacket, chafing to rear, a few short tears. Damp stain and sunning to spine head. Jacket is price clipped. Ink ownership inscription to ffep. The combination of forces leading to the Anglo-Saxon portrayal of his Irish Celtic cousins as chimpanzees, orangutans, and gorillas is the subject of this original, informative, and often witty study of political cartoons in the Victorian Era.
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