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First Edition. Small folio (37*26.5cm), bound in half calf, re-backed with original spine laid down, hand-coloured aquatint frontispiece and 40 plates by R. and D.Havell after George Walker, text in English and French, 96 pp.Printed by T. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street, London for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown, Paternoster Row; Ackermann, Strand; and Robinson, Son and Holdsworth, Leeds. 1814.
Some wear to the binding, light spotting to the front and rear blanks, else a fine example.
The illustrations in this work are an important historical record as they have become iconic depictions of the English working classes. The illustrations associated with the production of textiles at the start of the industrial age are particularly notable. Some of the subjects covered in this work include: local trades such as farmers, factory children and jockies.
Plate III "The Collier" is famous as it depicts in the background the first representation of a steam-engine on rails. In the image, the… Read More

First Edition, First Issue. Octavo, etched frontispiece, vignette title page, rustic type at head of page 1, 38 plates, wood-engraved vignettes and initials in the text, all after Thackeray, the Marquess of Steyne woodcut on page 336. Published by Bradbury & Evans (London), 1848.
Finely bound in a later Cosway-style blue full morocco by Bayntun Riviere in Bath with their binder's signature to the front turn-in, the upper cover with inset hand-coloured oval portrait of Thackeray under glass, triple rule gilt border to covers, incorporating copious gilt foliate devices, spine separated into compartments by five raised bands finished in gilt, four containing gilt foliation, all edges gilt, turn-ins with gilt fillets and decorative gilt corner-pieces, marbled endpapers, red morocco gilt bookplate of W. A. Foyle, Beeleigh Abbey to front pastedown, two blue silk bookmarkers.
The binding is in fine condition. Internally, there is toning to some of the plates and occasional light spotting; near fine.
Vanity… Read More