Lot 57
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EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). 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, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. 8° (234 x 145mm). Half title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette, 3 folding plates of engraved music and 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I. R. and G. Cruikshank, wood-engraved illustrations. (Music plates repaired with very slight loss, plates generally lightly stained and browned, some light mainly marginal soiling.) Finely-bound in scarlet crushed morocco gilt, the covers stamped with a gilt urn device, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. Abbey Life 281; Brunet II, 949; Tooley 196 (note).
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EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). 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, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. 8° (234 x 145mm). Half title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette, 3 folding plates of engraved music and 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I. R. and G. Cruikshank, wood-engraved illustrations. (Music plates repaired with very slight loss, plates generally lightly stained and browned, some light mainly marginal soiling.) Finely-bound in scarlet crushed morocco gilt, the covers stamped with a gilt urn device, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. Abbey Life 281; Brunet II, 949; Tooley 196 (note).

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EGAN, Pierce (1772-1849). 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, London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1822. 8° (234 x 145mm). Half title, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece, wood-engraved title vignette, 3 folding plates of engraved music and 35 hand-coloured aquatint plates by I. R. and G. Cruikshank, wood-engraved illustrations. (Music plates repaired with very slight loss, plates generally lightly stained and browned, some light mainly marginal soiling.) Finely-bound in scarlet crushed morocco gilt, the covers stamped with a gilt urn device, spine gilt in compartments, gilt edges. Abbey Life 281; Brunet II, 949; Tooley 196 (note).
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