CAREY, David; Illustrated by George Cruikshank.
Life In Paris; Comprising The Rambles, Sprees, And Amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, And his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton; with the Whimsical Adventures of the Galibut Family; Including Sketches of a Variety of other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis.
Carey's Life in Paris with original wrappers bound in
London: Marchant, 1887.
$750.00
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Item Number: RRB-149007
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First edition of the author's account of an exciting experience in the French capital. Octavo, bound in three quarter morocco over marbled boards with gilt titles and elaborate tooling to the spine in six compartments within raised gilt bands, frontispiece, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, original wrapper's bound in. Illustrated with twenty-one colored plates by George Cruikshank and twenty-two wooden engravings drawn by George Cruikshank and executed by Mr. White. In very good condition. Ownership plates of Dalmeny and Lucius Wilmerding to the front pastedown. Housed in a custom slipcase.
Life In Paris; Comprising The Rambles, Sprees, And Amours, of Dick Wildfire, of Corinthian Celebrity, And his Bang-up Companions, Squire Jenkins and Captain O'Shuffleton; with the Whimsical Adventures of the Galibut Family; Including Sketches of a Variety of other Eccentric Characters in the French Metropolis.
$750.00
Out of Stock




