This lot is closed for bidding. Bidding ended on 8/17/2024
[LONDON LOW-LIFE]. A Peep Into The Holy Land, or, Sinks of London Laid Open! Forming a Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated… [on verso of title-page:] The Dens of London Exposed… Third Edition. London: John Wilson / Printed for and Published by the Author, 1835. Small 8vo. With hand-colored frontispiece (presumably inserted from another book, most likely A Living Picture of London, 1828) of people reveling in a brothel, inserted at front (on verso of frontispiece is text from another book, “Contents / xv”. [ii], [1]-106 pp. 6 ½ x 4”. Bound in contemporary quarter brown morocco over marbled boards (binding quite worn, front joint starting, recased with later endleaves, frontispiece with some tears at gutter, gutter facing frontispiece starting, p. [1] with upper corner restored, some general occasional soiling throughout. Still, a good copy of this oddity, with a double title-page on the same leaf. British Museum Catalog of Printed Books, volume 47, p. 359.