Folio (330 x 222 mm). 74 unnumbered engraved plates including 2 engraved titles by P. Tempest after Lauron, titles and captions in English, French and Italian. (Some light toning or spotting to margins.) Contemporary paneled calf (rebacked). Provenance: Lady Chester (inscription), bequeathed to; Robert Willis Blencowe (1792-1874), antiquary (engraved bookplate and clipped signature laid in); John Talbot Gernon (bookplate).

FIRST EDITION, collecting a series of engravings designed by Mauron, representing the London street vendors of the Eighteenth Century. The earliest editions, such as this copy, have unnumbered plates (Overton added numerals and his imprint to his editions when the plates were passed to him ca 1711 or later). Brunet III, 882, stating that the first edition of 1711 is without Henry Overton's imprint and with plates unnumbered as in this copy; Colas 1793; Lipperheide GCb1; Vinet 2188.