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Sinks of London Laid Open: A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, To Which is Added a Modern Flash Dictionary Containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases Now in Vogue, With a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished With Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank.
London: J. Duncombe, 1848 [circa 1885]. [London] VINTAGE COPY, a later reprint. Octavo (19 x 13cm), pp.131 [1]. With an advertisement for 'Annals of Fashionable Gallantry' (1885) at rear. With a folding colour frontispiece, as well as numerous in-text woodcuts, by Cruikshank. Publisher's crocodile skin-effect tan cloth with gilt titles..... More
The Horkey.
London: Macmillan and Co., 1882. [Children's illustrated] ILLUSTRATED BY GEORGE CRUICKSHANK (the younger). Slim quarto (25 x 21cm), pp.48. Printed with colour illustrations to every page. Illustrated paper-covered boards, green cloth spine, all edges green. Blind stamp of W.H. Smith Library to flyleaf, some toning and light spotting. Boards rubbed..... More
The Adventures of Oliver Twist. The World's Classics VIII.
London: Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1909. [Classic Literature] FINELY BOUND, a pocket edition. Sexto-Decimo (15 x 10cm), pp.[4] xiv; 511 [5]. With 24 engraved illustrations by Cruikshank, including a frontispiece. Exquisite contemporary full tree calf, with raised bands, gilt titles and decoration to spine, and gilt ruling to boards..... More
Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People.
London: Chapman and Hall, Circa [1890s]. [Literature] LEATHER BINDING, library edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.[vi]; xiv; 475; [1], blank. Tan half calf with marbled paper over boards. Raised bands with gilt embellishment to spine, as well as gilt titles to blue and red labels. Speckled edges. Illustrative frontispiece, black..... More
Sketches by Boz. Illustrative of Every-Day Life and Every-Day People.
London: Chapman and Hall, 1839. [Literature] FINELY BOUND, a new edition. Octavo (22 x 14cm), pp.viii; 526 [2]. With 39 engraved plates and a decorated title page by Cruikshank. Contemporary brown half calf, with gilt titles to a burgundy label and further gilt tooling to spine, and marbled paper over..... More
Hone's Facetia; Includes 'The Queen's Matrimonial Ladder,' 'The Queen's Budget Opened,' 'The Political House that Jack Built,' 'Doll Tear-Sheet,' 'John Bull's Constitutional Apple Pie,' 'The Man in the Moon,' 'A Political Christmas Carol,' and more.
London: Various, 1820. [Political Satire] FINE LEATHER BINDING. Small quarto (21 x 13cm). With the original in-text engravings by Cruikshank. Two original magazine leaves from 'A Bill to deprive her Majesty Caroline Amelia Elizabeth of the title' tipped in to rear. Recent tan half-calf, marbled paper over sides. Matching marbled..... More
Guy Faux [Fawkes]: Or, the Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Melo-Drama, in Three Acts, Printed from the Acting Copy with Remarks, Biographical and Critical, by D-G. To Which are Added, a Description of the Costume, Cast of the Characters, Entrances and Exits, Relative Positions of the Performers on the Stage, and the Whole of the Stage Business, as now Performed in the Metropolitan Minor Theatres.
London: John Cumberland, n.d. [c.1830]. [Theatre]. EARLY PRINTING. Small pamphlet in sixes (15 x 10), pp.50. With a wood engraved frontispiece and cover illustration after R. Cruikshank by Mr. Bonner. Publisher's grey paper covers with titles, illustration and a price of 6d, sewn. Cumberland's No. 36 Minor Theatre, being a...... More
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