Price: US$19.20 + shipping
Condition: Fair
Description: Maroon boards, gilt decoration and lettering to spine,gilt lettering to front,shelf-worn,top page edges gilt,other edges browned, front hinge weak,right-half of fep missing,pages tanned, contents clean.
Seller: eclecticbooks, BOLTON, United Kingdom
William Harrison Ainsworth. Crichton. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1895.
Price: US$64.01 + shipping
Description: A lovely example of William Harrison Ainsworth's novel 'Crichton', illustrated throughout by Hablot K. Browne. Undated, dated using Copac. A work of fiction by the noted 19th century novelist, William Harrison Ainsworth. Illustrated by H. K. Browne, better known by his pen-name Phiz. Browne is perhaps best remember for illustrating the work of Charles Dickens, through he illustrated many literary works throughout his career. In an attractive half morocco binding, with paper covered board. With the binders stamp to the reverse of the front endpaper that reads 'Bound For William Brown, Edinburgh'. With a frontispiece and a illustrated title page, alongside an additional 16 plates. Collated, complete. In a half morocco binding, paper covered boards. Externally generally smart. Light patches of rubbing to the head of the spine and to the raised bands and extremities. Light spots to the front and rear boards and also to the fore edge. With the binders stamp to the reverse of the front endpaper. Internally firmly bound. Pages are bright and generally clean with the odd. Very Good Indeed
Seller: Rooke Books PBFA, Bath, United Kingdom
Price: US$320.07 + shipping
Description: 16 vols. 8vo (9 x 6 ins). Rebound in contemporary uniform white buckram cloth, gilt lettered calf spine labels, top edges gilt (boards lightly tanned at edges - otherwise a VG set). Pp. various, illus with b&w plates (most with tissue-guards) and in text, by w plates by George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne, Sir John Gilbert et al. (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-downs; no inscriptions). The Tower of London, Windsor Castle, Crichton, Flitch of Bacon, The Star Chamber, Boscobel, Ovingdean Grange, Mervyn Clitheroe, The Spendthrift, The Miser's Daughter, Guy Fawkes, Rookwood, Jack Sheppard, Lancaster Witches, Auriol, Old Saint Paul's.
Seller: Rothwell & Dunworth (ABA, ILAB), Dulverton, United Kingdom
Price: US$832.19 + shipping
Description: , 16 uniform volumes, titles are Lancashire Witches, Boscobel, Star Chamber, Auriol, Crichton, Windsor Castle, Miser's Daughter, Old St. Paul's, Jack Sheppard, The Spendthrift, Rookwood, Guy Fawkes, Mervyn Clitheroe, Flitch of Bacon, Tower of London, Ovingdean Grange, each with frontispiece and other illustrations Author's Copyright Edition , some light spots to leather but bindings generally clean and bright, previous owner's bookplate on front pastedowns, internally clean and tight, books in very good condition , half red morocco with red cloth sides, gilt titles and raised bands, top edge gilt Octavo Hardback ISBN:
Seller: Keoghs Books, Skipton, United Kingdom
Price: US$1280.29 + shipping
Description: An attractively bound copy of this swashbuckling adventure of a Scotsman in 16th-century France, written by a leading historical novelist of 19th-century Britain who was eclipsed only by Walter Scott. The illustrations are by "Phiz", who also illustrated the works of the author's close associate Charles Dickens. It is designated the Author's Copyright edition and follows the first of 1837. Ainsworth (1805-1882), seeking out the writer behind the "Boz" pseudonym, first met Dickens in 1835. It was Ainsworth who encouraged Dickens to publish Sketches by Boz (1836) in book form and who introduced to Dickens his first illustrator (Cruikshank), his first publisher (Macrone), and his future biographer (Forster). The two writers shared similar personalities and reputations and were often engaged in fruitful dealings over the next few years, during which Ainsworth followed up on his great success Rookwood (1834) with his second sole-authored book, Crichton. Ainsworth and Dickens were at the centre of the Newgate controversy and their sensational, romantic portrayals of London's criminal underground in novels such as Jack Sheppard (1839) and Oliver Twist (1838) were often directly compared in the press. "Ainsworth contributed significantly to the development of the literary novel after Scott, and to the new urban gothic of Dickens, Reynolds, and Stevenson. His darkly romantic and essentially melodramatic approach to history. can still be seen in popular narratives today, such as, for example, TV shows like Rome and The Tudors, and historical blockbusters like Braveheart and Titanic" (Carver, pp. 13-15). See Sadleir 9. Stephen Carver, "Ainsworth, William Harrison", The Encyclopedia of the Gothic, 2015. Octavo (215 x 138 mm). Contemporary red half calf, twin brown spine labels, gilt floral tooling in compartments, sides and corners with blind double fillets, marbled sides and endpapers, top edge gilt. Steel-engraved frontispiece, title page, and 16 plates, all with tissue guards, by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz). Bookplate of Burnell, of Winkburn Hall, Nottinghamshire; stamp of John Schroeder on second blank and foot of title page. Spine lightly sunned, faint sporadic foxing of leaves. A nicely bound copy.
Seller: Peter Harrington. ABA/ ILAB., London, United Kingdom
William Ainsworth. Ainsworth's Works. George Routledge and Sons, 1895.
Price: US$1450.00 + shipping
Condition: Good
Description: All 16 volumes present, red morroco spine and tips with cloth boards, six raised bands and gilt lettering on spines, marbled edges, illustrations, all bindings very tight, age toning in volumes varies from next to none to light, endpapers in most of the books show foxing/spots, boards mostly very good but tips worn with under-board showing at most tips and at top of spines. Board repair needed on two volumes: Critchton boards have detached though remain in one piece and binding unaffected; Lancashire Witches front board detached but spine board and back board still firmly affixed. Not musty. Rate the set Good Plus overall.
Seller: Taos Books, Santa Fe, NM, U.S.A.
William Ainsworth. Ainsworth?s Works. George Routledge and Sons, London, 1895.
Price: US$1750.00 + shipping
Description: attractive contemporary ½ red morocco with cloth boards, gilt spine with 6 compartments of raised bands, gilt lettering on two and four, all edges marbled., William Harrison Ainsworth a noted British writer, was trained in law, but some adventures in journalism led him finally to the literary life, his first success as a writer of romance being scored with "Rookwood" in 1834. "Tower of London" was the fourth work of the novelist, and, according to Ainsworth himself, it was written chiefly with the aim of interesting his fellow-countrymen in the historical associations of the Tower. Ainsworth died at Reigate on January 3, 1882., Size : 8vo, Numerous steel and wood engraved plates and text illustrations, illustrated by various illlustrators incl. Cruikshank, Phiz, Browne, Volume : 16, References : Bateson III 471, . ?Tower of London?, P. frontis, title, blank, preface iii-viii, contents ix-xii, illustration listing xiii-xvi, 1-439; ?Windsor Castle?, P. frontis, engraved title, blank, title, (3), contents iii-vi, illustrations vii-x, 1-324; ?Chrichton?, P. frontis, engraved title, blank, title, advertisment, preface (2), contents (2), 1-354; ?The Flitch of Bacon?, P. frontis, title, printer?s imprint, dedication, preface iv-v, contents, 1-314; ?The Star Chamber?, P. frontis, title, blank, dedication, blank, contents vii-viii, 1-296; ?Boscobel?, P. frontis, title, blank, dedication, blank, preface v-viii, contents ix-xvi, illustration listing (1), blank, 1-369; ?Ovingdean Grange?, P. frontis, title, blank, dedication, blank, contents v-ix, illustration listing (1), half-title, blank, 3-357; ?Mervyn Clintheroe?, P. frontis, engraved title, blank, title, blank, dedication, blank, contents v-viii, plate lisy (1), blank, half-title, blank, 1-372; ?The Spendthrift?, P. frontis, title, blank, contents iii-v, illustrations, 3-332; ?The Miser?s Daughter?, P. half-title, advertisment, blank, frontis, title, blank, dedication, blank, contents vii-xi, blank, 1-302; ?Guy Fawkes?, P. frontis, title, advertisment, dedication, blank, preface v-vi, contents vii-viii, 1-359; ?Rookwood?, P. frontis, engraved title, blank, title, blank, contents iii-iv, memoir v-xxvii, blank, (2), dedication xxxi-xxxii, preface xxxiii-xxxviii, 1-338; ?Jack Sheppard?, P. frontis, title, advertisment, dedication, blank, contents v-viii, 1-344; ?The Lancashire Witches?, P. title, blank, dedication, blank, contents v-viii, 1-492; ?Auriol?, P. frontis, title, blank, illustration list, blank, 1-238; ?Old Saint Paul?s?, P. frontis, engraved title, blank, title, blank, contents (2), advertisment, list of plates, 1-426. Occasional faint browning in some of the volumes otherwise an excellent attractive set
Seller: Alexandre Antique Prints, Maps & Books, Toronto, ON, Canada