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Real life in London; or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, esq., and his cousin, the Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the metropolis; exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life
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Real life in London; or, The rambles and adventures of Bob Tallyho, esq., and his cousin, the Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the metropolis; exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life. By an amateur. Embellished and illustrated with a series of coloured prints, designed and engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson, &c. ...
Published
London, For Jones & co., 1821-22.
Physical Description
2 v. : col fronts., 30 col. pl. ; 27 cm.
Local Notes
BEIN DA688 R43: Bookplate of Hugh J. Chisholm.
Notes
Added title-pages illus. in colors.
Vol. 2 "designed and engraved by Messrs. Heath, Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson, &c."
Ascribed to Pierce Egan, author of "Life in London, 1821-22"; but according to the Camb. hist. of Eng. literature it "is a pleasanter book than its prototype ... the author had a purer style, a cleaner mind and a wider knowledge of London than Egan." cf. vol. XIV, p. 248.
"Originally published in 14 parts in pink pictorial wrappers, afterwards in pictorial boards ... Some copies on large paper."--J. H. Slater, Illustrated sporting books, 1899, p. 96.
Two plates: v. 1, p. 142; v. 2, p. 406 not listed in Directions to the Binder.
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English
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June 01, 2002
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