Oct 01, 2009 - Sale 2188

Sale 2188 - Lot 96

Price Realized: $ 300
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 400 - $ 600
EGAN, PIERCE. Life in London. 36 hand-colored etchings by George and Robert Cruikshank. 8vo, gilt-decorated crimson straight-grain morocco by Zaehnsdorf, front joint rubbed; gilt edges, lacks half-title; 8 pages of ads bound in rear; label of the Hammond Museum Library mounted to rear blank. London, 1821

Additional Details

first edition, second issue, with footnote on page 9 and first sheet of music unnumbered. Abbey Life, 281; Cohn 262.

with--ALS "Pierce Egan" to Cochrane, regarding Egan's travels and the performance of one of his dramas in Dublin. 2 pages. 8vo, with integral address leaf; small tear along single vertical fold, lacks small portion of address leaf, remnant of wax seal. London, 14 April 1834.