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[LONDON LOW-LIFE]. [CRUIKSHANK, George (1792-1878), illustrator]. A Picture of London; or The Metropolis of England Displayed… London: G. Smeeton, [1812]. 8vo chapbook. With folding hand-colored frontispiece by Cruikshank (loose). 24 pp. Chapbook 7 x 4 ¼”; frontispiece 7 x 9”. Disbound (text toned, soiled, foxed; frontispiece toned, edgeworn, 1 tear to one vertical crease, right margin with later tape repair). Fair. Housed in chemise and slipcase. Laid-in is a bookplate of collector Richard Waln Meirs. The illustration was used with the same text under the title, Metropolis of England (Cohn 537) and also The Villainies of London (Cohn 787). This specific title is not listed in Cohn. This is rare in any title. This chapbook has sections on money changers, pick-pockets, mock-auctioneers, shoplifters, prostitutes, fortune tellers, conjurors, and other undesirables.