Pierce Egan's Finish to the Adventures of Tom, Jerry, and Logic, in their Pursuits through Life in and Out of London.
London: John Camden Hotten, no date circa [1853]. Reprint. Full Leather. 23 x 15 cm. Octavo. 368pp. Full black leather. 5 raised bands to spine. Illustrated with 36 color plates by Robert Cruikshank (brother of the better known George Cruikshank) with tissue guards as well as in-text woodcuts. Hand colored title page vignette. An early but not first edition of this work with no date on title page. Pencil doodling to the tissue paper over plates 35 and 36. Some fading and rubbing to the boards. There is a modern auction advertisement affixed the the blank endpaper. Frontispiece plate with careful tape repair to rear; also tape repair to front free endpaper. Very Good. Item #70389
Tooley 197 describes the original done in 1830 which has the same plate collation as this edition and including the woodcuts present in the first issue on pages 7, 40, & 72.
Price: $500.00