The English spy : an original work, characteristic, satirical and humorous, comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious. / Drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle. ; The illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank.
Charles Molloy Westmacott (1787/88 - 1868)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3239552
Summary
Bibliographic description
2 v., plates : ill. (some col.) ; 8vo. Pencil note on front free endpaper of vol. 1: "Fine copy". Bookseller's codes in pencil at rear of both vols. Ephemera: loosely inserted in vol. 1: (1) clipping from book dealer's catalogue about this copy (price cut out); (2) typescript catalogue card. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate, signed G.S. 1924: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: full blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form a border; spines gilt, lettered direct 'The English spy Westmacott I[-II]'; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; crimson endpapers. Binder's stamp on front pastedowns: Bound by Riviere & Son.
Makers and roles
Charles Molloy Westmacott (1787/88 - 1868), author Robert Isaac Cruikshank (London 1789 - 1856), illustrator