Heads of the people: or, portraits of the English / Drawn by Kenny Meadows. With original essays by distinguished writers [D.W. Jerrold, W.M. Thackeray, etc].

London : R. Tyas, 1840.

viii, 400 pages : frontispiece, add. t.page, illustrations, plates ; (8vo)

A popular work to which Thackeray and Jerrold contributed some of their earliest sketches. These literary sketches were written to the pictures and not, as some have imagined, the pictures drawn in illustration of the letterpress. cf. Academy, 1874. II, 360

The dress-maker / Douglas Jerrold.--The diner-out / D. Jerrold.--The stock-broker / C. Whitehead.--The lawyer's clerk / Leman Rede.--The "lion" of a party / D. Jerrold.--The medical student / P. Leigh.--The maid of all work / C. Webbe.--The fashionable physician / R.H.Horne.--The spoilt child / R.H. Horne.--The old Lord / E. Chatfield.--The parish beadle / C. Webbe.--The draper's assistant / D. Jerrold.--The monthly nurse / Leigh Hunt.--The auctioneer / D. Jerrold.--Tavern heads / C. Whitehead.--The old housekeeper / Alice.--The teetotaler / L. Blanchard.--The factory child / D. Jerrold.--The omnibus conductor / L. Hunt.--The common informer / D. Jerrold.--The family governess / Miss Winter.--The midshipman / E. Howard.--The pew-opener / D. Jerrold

The chimney sweep / J. Ogden.--The undertaker / D. Jerrold.--The postman / D. Jerrold.--The English peasant / William Howitt.--The commercial traveler / a "Knight of the road"--The street conjuror / Hal. Willis.--The young lord / D. Jerrold.--The ballad singer / D. Jerrold.--The Irish peasant / Samuel Lover.--Captain Rooke and Mr. Pigeon / William Thackeray.--The cockney / D. Jerrold.--The theatric