Sales catalogue 414: Maggs Bros

Date:
1921
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/11
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 414: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Ainsworth (W. H.)—continued. 11 The Fall of Somerset. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, ovzgznal cloth, uncut. London, 1877. £2 10s 12 The Flitch of Bacon; or, the Custom of Dunmow, a Tale of English home. With 8 zllustrations by John Gilbert. FIRST EDITION. 12mo, o7zgzval cloth, uncut. London, 1854. £2 2s *** With interesting A.L.S. of. the Author inserted. 13 The Flitch of Bacon. Another Copy. FIRST EDITION. F’cap. 8vo, origznal cloth, uncut. London, 1854. £1 1s 14 John Law: The Projector. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, o7zgznal cloth, uncut. London, 1804. ; £1 10s PRINTED FOR PRIVATE CIRCULATION. 15 The Lancashire Witches. A Novel. By William Harrison Ainsworth. THE ACTUAL FIRST EDITION IN BOOK FORM. Folio size, orvzgznal half Gal, London, Printed for Private Circulation only, 1840. £10 10s *¥** « About the time The Lancashire Witches completed its serial appearance in The Sunday Times, Ainsworth had a few copies of the story printed off from the news- paper type, and these, bound in a folio volume with pages of two columns, he presented to his own friends; this was the first edition, and it is now exceedingly scarce.” (S. M. Ellis. 16 The Lancashire Witches, a romance of Pendle Forest. Illustrated by John Gilbert. FIRST PUBLISHED AND [LLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo, orzginal cloth gilt, uncut. London, 1854. £3 3s *** With an A.L.S. of Ainsworth’s inserted, 31 pp., 8vo, referring to a Dramatic rendering of the work. 17 The Leaguer of Lathom. A Tale of the Civil War in Lancashire. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, orzgzxal cloth. London, 1876. £1 5s 18 The Lord Mayor of London: or, City Life in the Last Century. FIRST EDITION. 3 vols., post 8vo, o7vzginal cloth, uncut. London, 1862. | £3 3s
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