Gambling Memorabilia & Playing Cards

[London] Group of Antiquarian Works on London and English Gambling, Sporting, and Underworld. Including Sketches in London (1840), Grant, illustrated by “Phiz”; The Great Metropolis (New York, 1837), two vols. in one; English Wayfaring Life (1892); Life in London (London: John Camden Hotten, n.d.), Egan; Curiosities of London (1876), Timbs; Glory and Shame of England (New York, 1841), two vols., Lester; History of the Life of Jonathan Wild, the Great (1843), Fielding, illus. by “Phiz”; Terrible Sights of London (n.d.), Archer; Romance of London (n.d.), Timbs; True History of Tom and Jerry (n.d.), Hindley; Undercurrents Overlooked (1860), two vols., Byrne; and others. Sizes and bindings vary. Some worn copies, but overall a nice lot.