[King, Richard] | Another ramble through London lowlife

[King, Richard]

The New London Spy, or, a Twenty-Four Hours Ramble through the Bills of Mortality … London: Printed for J. Cooke; T. Lewis; R. Mariner; and T. Shepherd, 1772

8vo (184 x 114 mm). Engraved frontispiece, extra-illustrated; plates offset to text throughout. Nineteenth-century half brown morocco over marbled boards, marbled endpapers, spine gilt, edges gilt; upper hinge cracked and partially sprung from text.

Profusely illustrated with newspaper clippings, engraved plates, trade cards, handbills, etc., describing the manner and customs of eighteenth-century London. From the library of the English social historian, Henry Thomas Buckle (1821–1862).

REFERENCE:

ESTC N41717

PROVENANCE:

Henry Thomas Buckle (armorial bookplate on front pastedown) — David Laing Philips (bookplate on front free endpaper)