Author: EGAN, PIERCE; CRUIKSHANK, I R AND G [ILLUS.]
Title: Life in London; or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, Esq. And His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom Accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian in Their Rambles and Sprees Through the Metropolis
Description: London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. First Edition, Second Issue. Brown hardback leather cover on marbled boards. 240mm x 160mm (9" x 6"). 376pp + adverts. 36 hand-coloured illustrations by I R and G Cruikshank; 3 folding sheets of music. First Edition, second issue, with footnote on page 9 and the first leaf of music unnumbered.. G : in Good condition without dust jacket and rebacked with modern spine. Some edge-wear and rubbing to boards. Occasional light foxing. Bookplates of previous owner to paste-downs. Short letter written and signed by the author bound-in .

Keywords: Fiction Humour 1750 - 1850 Antiquarian


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