Etchings of Remarkable Beggars Itinerant Traders and Other Persons of Notoriety in London and Environs

by John Thomas Smith

$350 · Offered by James Cummins Bookseller

Later Issue and incomplete. 22 plates including title page uncolored save one partial and also title-page. 1 vols. 4to 14-1/8 x 11-1/2 inches . Unbound. Colas 2756; Lipperheide 1023; Hiler & Hiler p. 804. Item #236238 Smith had studied sculpting under Nollekens and mezzotinting under John Keyse Sherwin, after which he was appointed Keeper of Prints and Drawings in the British Museum.

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