Sinks of London Laid Open. 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, 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
London: J. Duncombe, 1848. First Edition thus. Decorative Cloth. First Edition (under this title) of a colorful guide to London's underbelly in the mid-1800s. Crown 8vo (182 x 109mm): 131,[1]pp, with folding hand-colored frontispiece (dated March 22, 1822) and woodcuts throughout by George Cruikshank. Original crocodile-textured dark beige cloth, spine..... more