Life In London

EGAN PIERCE, CRUIKSHANK, I, R and G. Life in London; Or, The  Day And Night Scenes Of Jerry Hawthorn, esq and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, The Oxonian, In Their Rambles and Sprees Through The Metropolis. BY Pierce Egan. Author of Walks through Bath, Sporting Anecdotes, Picture of the Fancy, Boxiana, Dedicated to his most gracious majesty King George The Fourth. Embellished with thirty-six scenes from real life, designed and etched by I. R. & G. Cruikshank; And enriched also with numerous original Designs on Wood, by the same Artists. Sherwood, Neely, and Jones. London. 1822.

(23 x 15 cm) Frontis, 35 Hand coloured plates, 3 fold out plates of engraved Music. 1st Published 1821. Full red straight grained morocco gilt extra, backtsrip in six with raised bands, titled direct, inner dentelles, marbled end papers, a.e.g. Bound for Henry Sotheran. Very fine.