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[EGERTON, Michael]
Peter Pasquin.
A Day's Journal of a Sponge.
These satiric plates, with their lengthy droll and witty captions, depict the comic misadventures of a pretentious, striving social man about town free-loader, moocher, muzzler, cadger, touch-artist; a Regency Period slacker who is thick as a brick but convinced otherwise. Abbey and Houfe have attributed this work to M[ichael]. Egerton was a social caricaturist who worked in London in the 1820s in the manner of George Cruikshank.
- Published
- London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney & Forster, 1824.
- References
- Abbey Life 289; Bobins III 854. Not in Colas.
- Plates
- 6
- Binding/Size
- M=4to
- Value
- 0-5000
- Published
- London: Published for the Proprietor, by Rowney & Forster, 1824.
- Ref
- 495
FIRST EDITION. Oblong 4to. (36.5 x 27 cm.). 19th century binding by Zaehnsdorf of 3/4 red morocco over cloth boards titled in gilt on upper board; spine richly gilt and titled. Hinges showing signs of wear. Original printed wrappers bound in. 6 full-page hand-coloured aquatints with the imprint of W. Egerton 1824. Expert repair to the upper joint at the head. A very good copy. Coloured plates in order: 1. Three lines of text beginning: 'Was stirring with the lark.' 2. Four lines of text beginning: 'Feeling one of those pangs.' 3. Five lines of text beginning: 'Having returned, & hired a Chaise.' 4. Four lines of text beginning: 'Former fears confirmed.' 5. Five lines of text beginning: 'Sauntering down Bond Street.' 6. Five lines of text beginning: 'Being recovered from the effects.'
