London in Real Life or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, The Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life, by an Amateur. Original paper covers, frontis, title page, inaddition to the frontis, title page, and pages 25-48 bound in the front of volume ii.

London in Real Life or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and His Cousin, The Hon. Tom. Dashall, through the Metropolis; Exhibiting a Living Picture of Fashionable Characters, Manners, and Amusements in High and Low Life, by an Amateur. Original paper covers, frontis, title page, in addition to the frontis, title page, and pages 25-48 bound in the front of volume ii. 1821. London: Jones & Co... 3, Warwick Square.

4to. Bound by Riviere & Son. Full fine-grain crushed red morocco, spine with 5 raised compartments, heavily blindstamped gilt in all panels with title in 2nd panel and vol and number in 3 rd panel. 3 parallel gilt rule borders on covers. Gilt edges and large gilt turn-ins. Top edge gilt. Deckled fore-edge and bottom edge.

Embellished and Illustrated with a Series of Coloured Prints, Designed and Engraved by Messrs. Alken, Dighton, Brooke, Rowlandson, etc. First edition, third issue text with "Oxford Arms Passage" in the imprint's address replaced by "3 Warwick Square." #0+ hand coloured plates. Mixed issue plates, as usual ("many copies in modern bindings having been completed or made up of different issues" - Tooley). An imitation of Pierce Egan's Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, The Oxonian, in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis, "a work which was issued in and after July, 1821, in shilling numbers. A journalist and a well-known character in his day, [Pierce Egan] wrote nothing so popular as this Life in London. Indeed, the taste for it amounted to a craze. For his illustrations, Egan went to two brothers, Isaac Robert and George Cruikshank. The success of the work was so great that the artists could not color the engravings fast enough to meet the demand. It suited the taste of the time, when a â fast' life had become a sophisticated and conscious aim. Life in London is a guide to a fast life. Part of the success enjoyed by [Pierce Egan's Life in London] was due, no doubt, to its readers' belief that they could name the originals of the fictitious characters. Imitations came swift and frequent. Out of the sixty-five imitations of it which Egan stated that he had reckoned, the most important was Real Life in London, or, the Rambles and Adventures of Bob Tallyho, Esq. and his cousin, the Hon. Tom Dashall, through the Metropolis; exhibiting a living picture of fashionable characters, manners, and amusements in high and low life, which was published in sixpenny numbers in 1821, with excellent illustrations by Heath, Alken, Dighton, Rowlandson and others. Real Life in London is a pleasanter book than its prototype. Some have held that Egan wrote it, but the author had a purer style, a cleaner mind, and a wider knowledge of London than Egan. The book shows many more sides of London life than his; though the formal descriptions of well-known scenes or buildings, here and there inserted amid matter of a very different character, recall very forcibly Mr. Bouncer's letters to his aunt in Verdant Green" (The Cambridge History of English and American Literature ).

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