SMEETON, George; Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Doings in London: or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis.
George Smeeton's Doings in London; illustrated by George Cruikshank
London: Orlando Hodgson, c. 1830.
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Item Number: RRB-148883
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Finely bound example of this spirited survey of London life. Octavo, bound in three-quarters modern morocco with gilt titles and tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, double gilt ruling to the front and rear panels, marbled endpapers, frontispiece and title page vignette, illustrated with thirty-three black and white engravings. In very good condition with light rubbing and toning, repair to the title page and frontispiece. Illustrated by legendary nineteenth century illustrator George Cruikshank. Bookplate to the front pastedown.
Doings in London by George Smeeton, published in the early nineteenth century, is a lively miscellany that captures the vibrancy and contradictions of metropolitan life during the Regency period. Written in a satirical and anecdotal style, the work surveys the entertainments, fashions, scandals, and eccentricities of the capital, offering readers both amusement and social commentary. Like many urban sketches of the period, it blends humor with moral reflection, implicitly critiquing the excesses and follies of city life while simultaneously reveling in their spectacle. Smeeton, a printer and publisher known for his compilations and pamphlets, here situates himself within the popular tradition of urban miscellanies, a genre that both entertained and shaped middle-class perceptions of London as a space of theatricality, vice, and modern identity.
Doings in London: or Day and Night Scenes of the Frauds, Frolics, Manners, and Depravities of the Metropolis.
$400.00
In Stock