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The English spy : an original work, characteristic, satirical, and humorous. Comprising scenes and sketches in every rank of society, being portraits of the illustrious, eminent, eccentric, and notorious / drawn from the life by Bernard Blackmantle ; the illustrations designed by Robert Cruikshank ...

Accession number
PML 142369-70
Creator
Westmacott, C. M. (Charles Molloy), 1787 or 1788-1868.
Published
London : Sherwood, Jones, and Co., 1825-1826.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Notes
Bernard Blackmantle is a pseudonym for C.M. Westmacott.
Title vignette.
Frontispiece portrait of the author in v. 2.
"London: Printed by Thomas Davison, Whitefriars."--Colophon.
With colored aquatints, chiefly by Cruikshank, and wood engravings after designs by Cruikshank and others.
Originally issued in 24 monthly parts and continued as the St. James's royal magazine and gazette, of fashion, literature, and the fine arts, etc.
Vol. 2 has imprint: London, Sherwood, Gilbert, and Piper.
Vol. 1: xxiii, 417 p., [36] leaves of plates; v. 2: xv, 399 p., [37] leaves of plates.
Description
2 v. : ill. (aquatints, wood engravings), port. ; 25 cm.
Provenance
From the library of Gordon N. Ray.
Binding
Blue diced russia, tooled in gilt.
Classification
Department