Nov 20, 2012 - Sale 2295

Sale 2295 - Lot 83

Unsold
Estimate: $ 600 - $ 900
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 tan calf, rebacked with earlier spine laid down (slight chipping to spine ends), gilt rules surrounding corner devices to covers, spine ornamentally tooled in 6 compartments with morocco lettering pieces in 2; gilt dentelles, all edges gilt, by Root & Son; Robert Leaming Montgomery armorial bookplate mounted over similar of Charles Cooper Townsend. London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821

Additional Details

first edition, later issue with footnote on p. 9 and "good-byes" on p. 376. Abbey Life, 281; Cohn 262; Tooley 196.