Real life in Ireland, or, The day and night scenes, rovings, rambles, and sprees, bulls, blunders, bodderation and blarney of Brian Boru and his elegant friend Sir Shawn O'Dogherty : exhibiting a real picture of characters, manners, &c. in high and low life in Dublin and various parts of Ireland : embellished with humorous coloured engravings, from original designs by the most eminent artists / by a real Paddy.
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Real life in Ireland
Published / Created:
London : Printed by B. Bensley, Bolt Court, Fleet Street. Published by Jones & Co., 3, Warwick Square; and J. L. Marks, Piccadilly; and sold by all booksellers and newsmen, in town and country, 1821.
Physical Description:
18 pt. (vii, [1], 296 p., [19] leaves of plates) : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Notes:
Abbey attributes this to Pierce Egan.Illustrations by Henry Thomas Alken, William Heath, and (possibly) Charles Williams. Cf. Abbey.At head of cover title: A sequel to Life in London. Entered at Stationers' Hall. An original work. Each number embellished with a coloured plate. Price 6d.Also at top of front wrapper: Life in Ireland. To be completed in about twenty-four weekly numbers, Price 6d. or six parts, 2s. each, (and on royal papers, in parts, 3s. each,) illustrated with a series of twenty-four humorous coloured plates, from original designs, by Cruikshanks, Atken, Rowlandson, and other first-rate artists.Completed in 18 parts. Pagination continuous.Tooley, R.V. English books with coloured plates, 1790-1860, 201NSTC, 2E5909Publisher's advertisements on back wrapper of all 18 pts.Abbey, J.R. Life in England in aquatint and lithography, 1770-1860, 282BAC: British Art Center copy is the Abbey copy. In original parts.
Subject Terms:
Ireland -- Description and travel. | Ireland -- Social life and customs. | Caricatures and cartoons -- Ireland. | Wit and humor. | Satire, Irish. | Bensley, B. -- Printer. | Jones & Co. -- Publisher. | Marks, J. L. -- Publisher. | Engraving, Colored -- Specimens -- 1821.
Contributors:
Egan, Pierce, 1772–1849, attributed name. | Alken, Henry Thomas, 1784–1851, ill. | Heath, William, 1795–1840, ill. | Williams, Charles, active 1797–1830, ill. | Cruikshank, George, 1792–1878, ill. | Rowlandson, Thomas, 1756–1827, ill.