CAULFIELD, JAMES, PORTRAITS, MEMOIRS, AND CHARACTERS OF REMARKABLE PERSONS... LONDON: 1819-1820

4 volumes, 8vo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.; 23 x 14.6 cm). Half-titles, 155 engraved plates, woodcut tailpieces; some minor foxing, offsetting. Full contemporary olive English morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt and blind with greek key pattern, multiple rules, and fleur-de-lis cornerpieces, spines with raised bands in five compartments, second and fourth gilt lettered, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, violet coated endpapers; spines uniformly sunned, rubbing to joints, some staining to endpapers.

Marquessate of Sligo (armorial bookpates to front pastedowns) 

Cohn 125
Douglas 35
Lowndes I:394
Truman 130

4 volumes, 8vo (9 1/8 x 5 3/4 in.; 23 x 14.6 cm). Half-titles, 155 engraved plates, woodcut tailpieces; some minor foxing, offsetting. Full contemporary olive English morocco, covers elaborately stamped in gilt and blind with greek key pattern, multiple rules, and fleur-de-lis cornerpieces, spines with raised bands in 5 compartments, second and fourth gilt lettered, others with repeat overall decoration in gilt, all edges gilt, inner dentelles gilt, violet coated endpapers; spines uniformly sunned, rubbing to joints, some staining to endpapers.
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First edition. A colorful Who's Who of sorts, or "rouges gallery," which includes biographical portraits of a notorious bookseller, incompetent criminals, James Poro and his parasitic twin, and Bampfylde Moore Carew, a cross dressing con-man and spurious clairvoyant (just to name a few).