Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, during the Eighteenth Century

Authors:

Malcolm, James Peller (1767-1815)

Published:

London : Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, & Brown, 1808

Format:

4to., half bound

Catalogue description:

with 50 plates, those of Costumes coloured (binding broken)

Number of volumes:

Languages:

English

Part of lot:

Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London

Sale price:

n/a

Appears in:

Devonshire Terrace (1844)

Sotheran's Valuation (c1871)

Stonehouse Catalogue (1878)

CD Junior's Catalogue

Other sources

Source reference:

S077.5b; V07.21; P4c716f; C054.09; ZSR27968

Location in CD Junior's Catalogue:

Location in Sotheran's valuation:

Library, shelving under bookcase left of fireplace (D4), item 05

Current location:

Link

Stonehouse Catalogue:

In vol. 2 is the plate of a charming girl, in a picturesque costume, immortalized in Barnaby Rudge, and here named in Dickens's handwriting Dolly Varden.

DLO admin:

J. P. Malcolm’s Anecdotes of the Manners and Customs of London, 2 vols, 1808, 1811, acquired by Dickens for (16/-) at the auction of book-collector Thomas Hill's library by Evans of Pall Mall in March 1841; see Pilgrim Letters 4, pp. 229-30&nn.