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“I SHALL MOST CERTAINLY RETURN TO LONDON TO ENJOY A FEW MORE SPREES

[EGAN, Pierce]. Life in London. London, 1821.

First edition, first issue, of this popular novel about the life in the British capital, with 36 hand-colored plates and 21 wood engravings after illustrations by the Cruikshanks, handsomely bound. $3600.

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“THE MANLY ART OF BOXING”:1823 BOXIANA, WITH FINE ENGRAVED PLATES

EGAN, Pierce. Boxiana. London, 1823. Five volumes.

Early edition of this boxing classic, with 50 engraved plates, including an engraved vignette title page in Volume I, 45 portraits, and four folding plates of boxing matches, handsomely bound by Bayntun. $3000.

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“COMPLETE PANORAMA OF THE SPORTING WORLD”

EGAN, Pierce. Anecdotes. London, 1827.

First combined edition of this repository of entertaining sporting stories of the Victorian age, illustrated with a hand-colored frontispiece and 12 full-page hand-colored aquatints by Theodore Lane and numerous in-text wood-engravings. $1200.

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“A FASCINATING AND DETAILED PICTURE OF AN AGE IN TRANSITION”

EGAN, Pierce. Life of an Actor. London, 1892.

Later edition of Egan’s celebrated 1825 work, with 27 hand-colored plates faithful to the original engravings of Theodore Lane and numerous in-text illustrations, handsomely bound by Whitman Bennett. $450.

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