The Life of Sir John Falstaff

A biography of a man who never lived, complete with sources, campaigns and a death-bed - Falstaff treated as a historical figure by a writer who knew the joke would hold for a whole volume. Brough wrote for the comic papers and the burlesque stage. This edition binds fifty-nine plates with the text, among them paintings by George Goodwin, Robert George Kelly, William Corden and Frederic Leighton, ranging from Peel Castle to the Queen's Bedroom at Windsor.