Details
[WESTMACOTT, CHARLES MOLLOY]. The English Spy...comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society...by Bernard Blackmantle. London: Sherwood, Jones [et al.], 1825-26. 71 hand-colored aquatint plates, including frontispiece, after Robert Cruikshank, G.M. Brighty, T. Rowlandson and T. Wageman; one full-page wood-engraved plate by G. Bonner and 74 small text woodcuts (including the repeated vignette on the title-pages). 2 volumes, 8vo, full red morocco, covers with single gilt-ruled border surrounding floral gilt cornerpieces incorporating gilt sporting devices, spine in six compartments, gilt-lettered in two, gilt floral-bordered panels (each surrounding a different sporting device) in the rest, edges and turn-ins gilt, t.e.g., by WOOD, extremities a little rubbed; some pale marginal dampstaining in the first volume. FIRST EDITION. Abbey/Life 325. (2)
Provenance
Herbert Ingalls Wallace, bookplate in each volume.