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.

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.

First edition with frontispiece / by George Cruikshank.

London : William Hone, 1819.

[Barbicau] : J. D. Dewick, [1819]

English

1 online resource (200 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : folded color frontispiece.

DC715 .E7

"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.
Advertising matter: p. [195]-200.
Describing 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.
Reproduction of the originals from Kinsey Institute.

Includes bibliographical references.

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