Low-Life: or, One half of the world, knows not how the other half live, being a critical account of what is transacted by people of almost all religions, nations, circumstances, and sizes of understanding, in the twenty-four hours, between Saturday-Night and Monday-Morning. In a true description of a Sunday, as it is usually spent within the bills of mortality. Calculated for the Twenty-First of June. With an Address to the ingenious and ingenuous Mr. Hogarth. The second edition, with very large additions of near half the work, by the author.

(LEGG, Thomas)

Published by Printed for the author; and sold by Thomas Legg. [c.1755], 1755

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viii, 103, [1]p. advertisements. 8vo. 19thC half calf; rebacked retaining most of the original spine. Signature of John A. Robertson, July, 1858 on leading f.e.p. 20thC bookplate of Peter Stewart Young on leading pastedown together with the bookseller's ticket of Thomas G. Jack, Edinburgh. ESTC T110093, BL and Cambridge only in UK; Library of Congress and Yale only in North America. The first edition (ESTC N33873) of c.1752, in 52 pages, is recorded in three copies only. Written and published by the low-life printer Thomas Legg, 1711-1800, this publication is a literary version of Hogarth's series of prints 'Four Times of the Day' with an eight page address to the artist. 'Hour 1. The Salop-Man in Fleet-Street shuts up his gossiping coffee-house. Journeymen barbers entertaining themselves for the ensuing day's employment, about St. Giles's, Spittle-Fields, Rag-Fair, the Fleet, the Mint, and other poverty-stricken parts of the town. Watchmen taking fees from house-breakers, for liberty to commit burglaries within their beats, and at the same time promise to give them notice, if there is any danger of their being taken, - or even disturbed in their villainies.'. Seller Inventory # 97992

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Title: Low-Life: or, One half of the world, knows ...

Publisher: Printed for the author; and sold by Thomas Legg. [c.1755]

Publication Date: 1755

Edition: 1st Edition

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ABA, ILAB & PBFA member. Jarndyce Antiquarian Booksellers have been selling 18th & 19th Century English books, especially first editions of English Literature and Social History since 1969 and are world leading specialists in Dickens. Our premises are opposite the British Museum in Bloomsbury, London. We publish between 4 and 6 major catalogues per annum. As traditional and professional booksellers, we prefer to develop a personal relationship with collectors - and customers via the internet.

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