Author: CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE.
Title: Sinks Of London Laid Open: Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the whole forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging House Gallants, Lesons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished with Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 132; folding coloured frontispiece, text with numerous line drawings, bound in original pebble-grained cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, very good copy. London; Published By J. Duncombe; 1848.
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Title: Sinks Of London Laid Open: Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash phrases Now in Vogue, with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the whole forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging House Gallants, Lesons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished with Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
Description: First Edition; Cr. 8vo; pp. 132; folding coloured frontispiece, text with numerous line drawings, bound in original pebble-grained cloth, title lettered in gilt on spine, previous owner's bookplate on front endpaper, very good copy. London; Published By J. Duncombe; 1848.
Keywords: reference language history english art illustrations social life customs humorous art reference books on books boo
Price: AUD 550.00 = appr. US$ 380.53 Seller: Time Booksellers
- Book number: 113394
- Book number: 113394