| Wilkie Collins - English fiction - 1875 - 358 pages
...Habits of the Greeks and Romans, corrected to the present state of knowledge. i8mo, embossed roan, $s. LIFE IN LONDON; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn and Corinthian Tom. WITH THE WHOLE OF CRUIKSHANK'S YERY DROLL ILLUSTRATIONS, in Colours, after the... | |
| William Wilkie Collins - 1876 - 352 pages
...the true heroic type, Mr.Childe's volume may well be commended to the English reader." — Graphic. LIFE IN LONDON; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn and Corinthian Tom. With the whole of Cruikshank's very Droll Illustrations, in Colours, after the... | |
| Robert William Henderson - Reference - 1977 - 318 pages
...Twelve and a Half Cents. Cut of Tom Hyer on cover, cut of unnamed boxer on title-page. EGAN, Pierce. Life in London: or, The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and Corinthian Tom, accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their rambles and sprees through the... | |
| Peter Fryer - History - 1984 - 652 pages
...(1821), 27-8. 17. See, eg, James Grant, Sketches in London (WSOrr & Co., 1838), 27,44. 18. Pierce Egan, Life in London; or The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom (Sherwood, Neely, & Jones, 1821), 347; J[ames]. C[atnach]., The... | |
| George G. Foster - History - 1990 - 262 pages
...influence can be drawn back only to the publication in 1821 of Pierce Egan's extension of the genre, Life in London: or, the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in their Rambles and... | |
| Richard Fotheringham - Biography & Autobiography - 1992 - 286 pages
...restraint, and the staging techniques of the hippodrama, was Pierce Egan's Regency bestseller, Tom & Jerry: Life in London; or; the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq., and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom in their Rambles and Sprees through the Metropolis (first published... | |
| Robert William Dent - Literary Criticism - 1995 - 308 pages
...(1800). The Absenteee (1812). Everyman's Library. London: JM Dent & Sons, Ltd., 1910. Egan, Pierce. Life in London; or the Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom.... London: Sherwood, Neely, and Jones, 1821. Eliot, George.... | |
| Annemarie Bean, James V. Hatch, Brooks McNamara - History - 1996 - 332 pages
...plays modeled on William T. Moncrieff 's successful adaptation of Pierce Egan's popular novel entitled Life in London; or The day and night scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, esq. and his elegant friend Corinthian Tom . . . in their rambles and sprees through the metropolis (1821).53... | |
| Ian Ousby - Literary Criticism - 1996 - 452 pages
...with this liberty limited only to those occasions where its exercise would involve harm to others. Life in London: or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn Esq. and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, The Oxonian, in Their Rambles and... | |
| Don Herzog - History - 2000 - 580 pages
...A Series of Plays (London, 1798; reprint ed. Oxford: Woodstock Books, 1990), p. 248. 2 Pierce Egan, Life in London; or, The Day and Night Scenes of Jerry Hawthorn, Esq. and His Elegant Friend Corinthian Tom, Accompanied by Bob Logic, the Oxonian, in Their Rambles and... | |
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