The Englishman's mentor : the picture of the Palais Royal; describing its spectacles, gaming rooms, coffee houses, restaurateurs, tabagies, reading rooms, milliners' shops, gamesters, sharpers, mouchards, artistes, epicures, courtesans, filles, and other remarkable objects in that high change of the fashionable dissipation and vice of Paris ; with characteristic sketches and anecdotes of its frequenters and inhabitants.

Author/creator Author author.
Other author Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878, illustrator.
Format Electronic
EditionFirst edition with frontispiece / by George Cruikshank.
PublicationLondon : William Hone, 1819.
Manufacture[Barbicau] : J. D. Dewick, [1819]
Description1 online resource (200 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : folded color frontispiece.
Supplemental ContentGale, Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Subjects

SeriesArchives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century
Archives of Sexuality and Gender: Sex and Sexuality, Sixteenth to Twentieth Century. UNAUTHORIZED
General note"The author, who is a Frenchman, has evidently taken Mercier's celebrated Tableau de Paris for his model ... the translator ... has made considerable additions from his own observation ... and many more from the communication of friends"--Preface.
General noteAdvertising matter: p. [195]-200.
General noteDescribing its spectacles, gaming rooms and other remarkable objects in that high change of the fashionable dissipation and vice of Paris. With characteristic sketches and anecdotes of its frequenters and inhabitants.
General noteReproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references.

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Electronic Resources Access Content Online ✔ Available