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[LONDON LOW-LIFE]. A Peep Into The Holy Land, or, Sinks of ...

Estimate: $150 - $300

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[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 ? 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.