Author: [English History]. Ashton, John [b. 1834]
Title: OLD TIMES. A Picture of Social Life at the End of the Eighteenth Century. Collected, and Illustrated from the Satirical and Other Sketches of the Day
Description: London: John C. Nimmo, 1885. 1st edition. Original publisher's deep maroon cloth with green leather title label to spine & gilt stamped device ("Fashions for 1797") to front board. TEG. xii, 354 pp (including Index). 29 page publisher catalogue, dated February 1885, bound-in at rear. Illustrated with 88 inserted plates. 8vo. 9-1/8" x 5-3/4". Spine ever so slightly faded. Front board with a minute bit of spotting to top left. A VG+ copy. On a few of the plates, under the image, a prior owner has neatly named some of the characters depicted therein, e.g. In "Faro's Daughters", which shows 2 ladies in the stocks, the woman on the left is identified as Lady Archer.

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