WIGHT, John - Mornings at Bow Street

1824. WIGHT, J[ohn]. MORNINGS AT BOW STREET. A selection of the most humourous and entertaining reports which have appeared in the Morning Herald. With twenty-one illustrations by George Cruickshank. London: Printed for Charles Baldwyn, 1824. Second edition. 11 plates and text illustrations by Cruikshank. Octavo. [2],[iii]-x,279,[1] pp. Bound by Zaehnsdorf in blue morocco, gilt-stamped title and decoration in spine compartments, gilt-stamped borders and inner dentelles, marbled endpapers, a.e.g. Binding shows general light soiling, slight sunning to spine, and is lightly rubbed along joints. Two plates (opposite pp. 145 & 178) have expert paper repairs. Except for scant light foxing to endpapers, it is a clean copy with generous margins. (Cohn 844, 1st & 3rd editions described; Wolff 7222). .

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