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[WESTMACOTT, Charles Molloy] & Robert CRUIKSHANK (illustrator). The English Spy, London: Sherwood & Jones, 1825-26, 2 vols., 8°, FIRST ISSUE, uncoloured woodcut and 71 hand-coloured aquatints (offset onto text, without the advertisements bound in at the end), contemporary calf, blindstamped roll border on covers (joints cracked). [Tooley 504] Provenance Sir William Eden (bookplate)
"Described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published', a comment elicited by the fact that many characters in the book were drawn from life, and were, at the time of publication, undoubtedly easy to recognize." [Abbey Life 325] (2)
"Described by Miss Prideaux as 'perhaps the most daring book ever published', a comment elicited by the fact that many characters in the book were drawn from life, and were, at the time of publication, undoubtedly easy to recognize." [Abbey Life 325] (2)