Egan

Egan, PIERCE (1772-1849), was the author of many works, including Boxiana and Life in London. The last, which Thackeray has immortalised in one of his Roundabout Papers, owed much to its coloured illustrations by the brothers Cruikshank.—His son, PIERCE EGAN the younger (1814-80), wrote innumerable novels for Reynolds' Miscellany chiefly and the London Journal.