Illustration of central woman and man seated on a settee, almost side on, framed in an oval of foliage, roses and ivy around branches, cherub dangling a jester hat? over them, surrounded by a series of annotated comical scenes. The man holds the woman’s left hand to his chest and her waist with his right as she looks down to her skirt. Comics; top left- spring sunshine in a park contrasting with top right- spring showers in the park, under to the left- two male operatic singers / performers, Prince Arthur pulls sword from a stone behind two Irish dancers, a policeman being mocked by children in a game?, horse race, under the right- the Prince of Wales ‘performing’ a balancing act in Egypt with money weighing him down, holding onto his back, a group of men stood around a ‘dancing’ bear and at the bottom- a bicycle race. Detailed wood engraving with cross hatching and thin black border. Artist signature in the bottom left corner. (p.342).