Cockney social caricature, dining / coffee house, Robert Seymour, 1835 / 1878.

"You shall have the paper directly, Sir, but really the debates are so very interesting.", "Oh pray don't hurry Sir, it's only the scientific notices I care about" caricature by Robert Seymour, published in Seymour's Humorous Sketches by Henry Bohn, 1878. First published as a lithograph in about 1836, this is a later steel engraved edition. Good condition. Size about 11.5 x 17 cms, plus margins. Ref G8848