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Thackeray turns his wit toward both literature and royalty in this volume combining his celebrated lectures on the great English humorists with his portraits of Kings George I through George IV. Swift, Addison, Steele, Pope, Hogarth, Fielding, Sterne, Goldsmith, and others appear alongside Thackeray’s lively observations on eighteenth-century society, politics, manners, and court life. This P. F. Collier & Son edition is particularly rich visually, with fifty-six photogravures and illustrations after Thackeray, Frederick Walker, George du Maurier, Frank Dicksee, Richard Doyle, and others.