CRUIKSHANK, GEORGE and ISAAC (illustrators). Egan, Pierce. Life in London. 36 hand-colored aquatint plates, 3 folding plates of sheet music, and wood engravings in text by Isaac & George Cruikshank. 8vo, full red straight-grain morocco gilt, spine gilt in compartments, all edges and turn-ins gilt, by Zaehnsdorf, green silk endleaves, offsetting to facing blanks from plates, sheet music and occasional leaves a bit browned; housed in silk-lined folding case, old dampstains. London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821
first edition, first issue in book form: without footnote on p. 9; first sheet of music unnumbered; "good-bies" on p. 376; and with the scarce "To the Subscribers" leaf at the end. Abbey Life 281; Tooley 196; Cohn 262.
