Thomas Hood — The Comic Annual

London, Charles Tilt, 1832. Cloth. A smart and scarce annual volume of humorous work written and edited by Thomas Hood. Early edition. Scarce work. Illustrated throughout with frontispiece, vignette, and forty-eight plates, with many in-text images. Collated complete. The Comic Annual was a humour volume that began publication in 1830 and ran until 1842. A total of eleven volumes were published as no annuals were printed in 1840 or 1841. Written and edited by Thomas Hood, an English poet, author and humorist who wrote regularly for The London Magazine, Athenaeum, and Punch. Publisher's advertisements to the rear. In the original quarter crushed morocco with pictorial paper boards. Externally, sound with bumping and rubbing to the extremities. Minor loss to the boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd spot. Good . Ill.: None. Good .