The Ricky Jay Collection

The Ricky Jay Collection

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October 28, 08:54 PM GMT

Estimate

1,000 - 1,500 USD

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(London Guidebook)

A Fortnight's Ramble through London … Being a True and Pleasing Narrative of the Adventure of Farmer's Son … London: Dean & Munday, N.d. [?1820s]


12mo (178 x 108 mm). Engraved frontispiece by G. Murray after George Cruikshank, p. 32 misprinted as "2"; browned with some staining, fore-edge of frontispiece chipped, not affecting image. Disbound, several leaves loose.


Another edition, with 66 pages.


PROVENANCE:

Mary Wayle Repton (early nineteenth-century signature on blank recto of frontispiece)

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