SINKS OF LONDON LAID OPEN; A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the cant words, slang terms, and flash phrases now in vogue,
with a list of the sixty orders of Prime Coves. The whole Forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging Made Easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens Depicted, the Common Lodging-house Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished with humorous illustrations by George Cruikshank. Pp. 132(last advertisement), folding hand-coloured frontispiece, black & white text illustrations and tailpieces; cr. 8vo; later half black morocco, the spine lettered and decorated in gilt between raised bands, marbled papered boards; uncut; later endpapers; text block faintly browned, a couple of tiny edge splits, scattered light foxing; J. Duncombe, London, 1848[c. 1885]. Later printing? *Apparently a reprint, with a new title page, of The Dens of London Exposed (1822), with the original title retained as the running title throughout. The advertisement at the end is for Annals of Fashionable Gallantry, A Collection of Remarkable Trials for Divorce, which was published in 1885. Item #184284
Price: $500.00