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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.
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
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 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
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
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