Life in London :. or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorne, esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis.
Pierce Egan (1772 - 1849)
Category
Books
Date
1822
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3212045
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 376 p., 36 col. plates, :. ill., music ;. 8vo. Provenance: inscribed on flyleaf in ink "Margaret Greville” [i.e. Margaret Helen Greville, DBE (1863–1942)]. Unidentified nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, motto Virtute et fortuna. Binding: nineteenth-century full calf, sewn onto four [?] bands; blind-stamped on boards; blind- and gold-rolled to form perimeter frame; gold-tooled on spine; marbled endpapers, gold tops. Green ribbon bookmark.
Makers and roles
Pierce Egan (1772 - 1849), author George Cruikshank (London 1792 - London 1878), illustrator Robert Isaac Cruikshank (London 1789-1856), illustrator