[Cruikshank, George] | Parisian low life

[Cruikshank, George]

The Englishman's Mentor: The Picture of the Palais Royal … London: Printed for William Hone, 1819

12mo (152 x 102 mm, uncut). Handcolored folding engraved plate by George Cruikshank, title-page printed in red and black; faint, scattered spotting in quires G–K. Contemporary speckled paper boards, printed paper label; upper joint cracked but intact, wear to lower joint, spine age-darkened with a few tears and minor loss to foot of spine, bookplate removed from front pastedown. Brown cloth slipcase.

First edition ^"describing its spectacles, gaming rooms, coffee houses, restaurateurs, tabagies, reading rooms, milliners' shops, gamesters, sharpers, mouchards, artistes, epicures, courtesans, filles, and other remarkable objects in that high change of the fashionable dissipation and vice of Paris."

REFERENCE:

Cohn 274