48 Plates Depicting the Poor of London

Etchings of Remarkable Beggars Itinerant Traders and Other Persons of Notoriety in London and Environs [WITH later title-page entitled] Vagabondia.

London: Published for the Proprietors. Printed by J. M'Creery, Black Horse-Court, 1817.

Price: $2,000.00


About the item

Later issue with 48 instead of 23 plates. 48 plates plus partly colored title page dated 1815 and Thomas Smith as publisher and the later 1817 title-page. viii, 52 pages of text. 1 vols. 4to (14-1/8 x 11-1/2 inches). 48 Plates Depicting the Poor of London. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Colas 2756; Lipperheide 1023; Hiler & Hiler p. 804.

Item #250209

Smith was Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.