Item #141405 Sinks of London Laid Open [The Dens of London (cover title)]. A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in vogue. George CRUIKSHANK.

CRUIKSHANK, George (illustrator)

Sinks of London Laid Open [The Dens of London (cover title)]. A Pocket Companion for the Uninitiated, to which is added a Modern Flash Dictionary containing all the Cant Words, Slang Terms, and Flash Phrases now in vogue ...

London, J. Duncombe, 1848 [an early reprint]/ 1822.

Octavo, 131, [1] (publisher's advertisement) pages with numerous in-text illustrations plus a three-panel folding hand-coloured plate by George Cruikshank.

Original crocodile-textured brown cloth a little marked and unevenly sunned; extremities slightly bumped; free endpapers a little offset, with the front one creased; an excellent copy.

The delightful title continues thus: 'with a List of the Sixty Orders of Prime Coves, the Whole forming a True Picture of London Life, Cadging made easy, the He-She Man, Doings of the Modern Greeks, Snooking Kens depicted, the Common Lodging House Gallants, Lessons to Lovers of Dice, the Gaming Table, etc. Embellished with Humorous Illustrations by George Cruikshank'.

Provenance: Glen Ralph, with his Wilmar Library bookplate on the front pastedown.