ΤΟ SIR FRANCIS FREELING, BART., THE GREAT PATRON OF LETTERS, Foreign, General, and Twopenny; Distinguished alike by his fostering care of the BELL LETTERS, And his Antiquarian regard for the DEAD LETTERS ; Whose increasing efforts to forward the spread of intelligence, as a CORRESPONDING MEMBER of All Societies, (and no man fills his Post better) Have Singly, Doubly, and Trebly, endeared him to every class THIS FIRST VOLUME OF The Comic Annual, IS, WITH FRANK PERMISSION, GRATEFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THOMAS HOOD. |