Tom & Jerry
Subtitle: life in London, or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis
By: by Pierce Egan ; with numerous coloured illustrations from real life designed by I. R. & G. Cruikshank
Contributors: Cruikshank, Robert, 1789-1856, ill; Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, ill
Publisher: John Camden Hotten
Published: 1881
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 406
Subjects: Social life and customs
Other titles: Life in London; Tom and Jerry; Day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq.
Notes: Title vignette.

First published 1821 with title: Life in London.

Plates are aquatint colored.

"Introduction to the present edition" signed: John Camden Hotton, 27 Nov. 1869."

"Life in London. A new song by Pierce Egan, set to music by A. Voight": p. 143-159.

Publisher's advertisement, dated March 1881: p. 1-32 at end.

cat victorian 20000928 lwb

Copy has the 26 p. of introduction in different order from the 1869 edition.

Copy publication date taken from the date of publisher's advertisement of 1881.

Part of the J.F.C. Harrison Collection.

Bound in original blue cloth with vignette in gilt on upper cover.  Lettering and vignette in gilt on spine.  Gray coated on white lining paper.