Diorama Anglais ou Promenades Pittoresques à Londres, renfermant les notes les plus exactes sur les caractères, les moeurs et usages de la nation anglaise, prises dans les différentes classes et la société
by Egan, Pierce. Jean-Baptiste Balthazar Sauvan. Illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank
- Used
- very good
- first
- Condition
- Very Good
- Seller
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New York, New York, United States
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About This Item
Paris: Chez Jules Didot l'Ainé and Badouin Freres, 1823. First edition. Full Calf. Very Good. A French adaptation of Egan's "Life in London" -- not a straightforward translation. 8vo. 21 by 14.5 cm. 235 pp. 24 hand-colored plates taken from the English work. Gorgeous full mottled calf binding. Foxing, heavy-ish at times, on the text leaves.
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- Bookseller
- White Fox Rare Books and Antiques (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 005226
- Title
- Diorama Anglais ou Promenades Pittoresques à Londres, renfermant les notes les plus exactes sur les caractères, les moeurs et usages de la nation anglaise, prises dans les différentes classes et la société
- Author
- Egan, Pierce. Jean-Baptiste Balthazar Sauvan. Illustrations by George and Robert Cruikshank
- Format/Binding
- Full Calf
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Publisher
- Chez Jules Didot l'Ainé and Badouin Freres
- Place of Publication
- Paris
- Date Published
- 1823
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About the Seller
White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
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New York, New York
About White Fox Rare Books and Antiques
By appointment. Antiquarian and rare books with strengths in illustrated plate books, the decorative arts, costume, sporting, foreign language literature (in the original language), with growing emphasis on early printing.
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- First Edition
- In book collecting, the first edition is the earliest published form of a book. A book may have more than one first edition in...
- Leaves
- Very generally, "leaves" refers to the pages of a book, as in the common phrase, "loose-leaf pages." A leaf is a single sheet...