Pierce EGAN
Diorama anglais ou promenades pittoresques... Lot 6
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Diorama anglais ou promenades pittoresques à Londres, renfermant les notes les plus exactes sur les caractères, les mœurs et les usages de la nation anglaise, prises dans différentes classes de la société par M. S...
Decorated with twenty-four engraved and illuminated plates and several characteristic subjects. Paris, Jules Didot l'ainé & Baudouin frères, 1823. In-8, brown half calf, smooth spine decorated (period binding). Small loss at head cap.
First French edition (plates with captions). Complete with 24 beautiful and amusing hors-texte engravings, richly watercolored.
Jean Baptiste Sauvan freely translated Egan's "Life in London", published in 1821.
Some foxing and spotting. (Vicaire, III, 564.)
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