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[WESTMACOTT, CHARLES MOLLOY]. The English Spy...comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society...by Bernard Blackmantle. The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank. London: Sherwood, Jones 1825-1826. 2 vols., 8vo, 255 x 162mm. (10 x 6 3/8in.), original woodcut pictorial printed boards, uncut, bindings restored but rubbed, some offsetting from plates to text, occasional slight foxing, red morocco gilt pull-off cases. FIRST EDITION, 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 title-pages), an 8-leaf publisher's catalogue bound at end of each volume. Abbey Life 325. (2)

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[WESTMACOTT, CHARLES MOLLOY]. The English Spy...comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society...by Bernard Blackmantle. The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank. London: Sherwood, Jones 1825-1826. 2 vols., 8vo, 255 x 162mm. (10 x 6 3/8in.), original woodcut pictorial printed boards, uncut, bindings restored but rubbed, some offsetting from plates to text, occasional slight foxing, red morocco gilt pull-off cases. FIRST EDITION, 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 title-pages), an 8-leaf publisher's catalogue bound at end of each volume. Abbey Life 325. (2)