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Lot 275

Sale 6286 - The Collected Library
Lots Open
Mar 5, 2025
Lots Close
Mar 18, 2025
Timed Online / Chicago
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Estimate
$200 - 300
Price Realized
$192
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[ILLUSTRATED BOOKS]. EGAN, Pierce. Life in London; or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom… London: Printed for Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821.


First edition, second issue (with footnote on p. 9 and first sheet of music unnumbered). 8vo. Illustrated with engraved hand-colored frontispiece with aquatint, 35 engraved hand-colored plates with aquatint, by George and Robert Cruikshank, and three folding plates of sheet music. Full contemporary brown calf, decorated in blind and in gilt, rebacked, tips renewed; edges untrimmed; marbled endpapers; scattered foxing.

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