first edition
1820 · London
by [Luttrell, Henry]
London: John Murray, Albemarle Street, [printed by Thomas Daviscon, Whitefriars], 1820. First edition, small 8vo, pp. [4], 236; original drab paper-covered boards, printed paper label on spine; joints starting, spine with cracks and label worn, a touch of foxing, free endpaper abraded at the top margin from attempt at obliterating an ownership stamp; a good copy. Contemporary bookseller's ticket: "Sold by / C. Chapple, / at His Circulating Library / Pall Mall" on pastedown. "Influenced by Horace, the poem was a 'society epic,' offering vignettes of London life. Tom Moore, who was to some extent its literary sponsor, described the volume as 'full of well-bred (truncated)