Name: PIERCE EGAN'S FINISH TO THE ADVENTURES OF TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC, IN THEIR PURSUITS THROUGH LIFE IN AND OUT OF LONDON
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PIERCE EGAN'S FINISH TO THE ADVENTURES OF TOM, JERRY, AND LOGIC, IN THEIR PURSUITS THROUGH LIFE IN AND OUT OF LONDON

by Pierce Egan

Illustrated by Robert Cruikshank

Published by John Camden Hotten. Circa. 1872

Very good condition. Modern binding - green leather corners and spine; raised bands to spine; gilt titles. Marbled boards. 36 Hand coloured plates. Large paper edition. New endpapers.

Some wear and rubbing to edges of leather. Page browning and some foxing. Margin marks in some places.

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BOOK I.
SHEWING THE "GLORIOUS UNCERTAINTY" OF PLEASING EVERY CLASS OF SOCIETY RESPECTING A KNOWLEDGE OF LIFE IN LONDON BEING ESSENTIAL TOWARDS THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE JUNIOR BRANCHES OF MANKIND; AND ALTHOUGH CONTRARY TO THE ESTABLISHED AND SAPIENT RULES OF THE COLLEGE OF PHYSICIANS, AND THE PRACTICE PURSUED BY OUR LEARNED FRIENDS IN WESTMINSTER HALL, WE ARE NEVERTHELESS ANXIOUS TO GIVE ADVICE WITHOUT A FEE, IN ORDER TO PROVE THAT, IN ALL CASES, WHETHER CONNECTED WITH YOUTH OR MORE MATURE AGE, PREVENTION IS MUCH BETTER THAN CURE: INDEED, SO ANXIOUS ARE WE TO SET OURSELVES RIGHT WITH THE PUBLIC, AS TO OUR FUTURE INTENTIONS RESPECTING THIS WORK, AND THAT WE MAY SEE OUR WAY CLEARLY, AND TREAD ON THE FIRMEST GROUND, WE FEEL INCLINED TO ADOPT THE LATIN PROVERB SO OFTEN QUOTED BY BOB LOGIC TO THE UNSUSPECTING JERRY, ON THIS FIRST ARRIVAL IN THE METROPOLIS:
Incidit in Scyllam qui vult vitare Charybdim
CHAP I. - Most certainly, if the dull routine of the commonplace matters were acted upon, but rather than commence with the cold formality of a CHAPTER as to minor events, the AUTHOR feels himself, as it were , in a labyrinth to affix an opposite Name to it;
CHAP.II. - The difficulty of parting with OLD PALS
CHAP.III.- The effects of all-powerful LOVE
CHAP.IV.-Hawthorn Hall rendered almost a nullity by the departure of TOM and LOGIC
CHAP.V.-JERRY AND LOGIC Visit the GREAT BORE
CHAP.VI.-An invitation to the Duchess of DO-GOOD's magnificent fete
CHAP.VII.-New scenes for the YOUNG ONE
CHAP.VIII.-A visit to the SNUGGERY
CHAP.IX.-CORINTHIAN KATE's residence
CHAP.X. -The melancholy Fate of Kept Mistresses in general.
CHAP.XI.-LOGIC and his Pals "going the rounds"
CHAP.XII.-Severe indisposition of TOM on account of the sudden flight of CORINTHIAN KATE
CHAP.XIII.-Terrific moments for the thoughtless-Melancholy end of CORINTHIAN KATE
CHAP.XIV. - A peep at the Tower of London
CHAP XV.-"There is no place like home"