THE WORKS: Complete in 16 Volumes. Auriol. Boscobel. Crichton. The Flitch of Bacon. Guy Fawkes. Jack Sheppard. The Lancashire Witches. Mervyn Clitheroe. The Miser's Daughter. Old Saint Pauls. Ovingdean Grange. Rookwood. The Spendthrift. The Star Chamber. The Tower of London. Windsor Castle.VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF BLUE CALF DECORATED IN GILT WITH CONTRASTING LABELS.
by AINSWORTH, Harrison
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- Hardcover
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- Seller
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
George Routledge and Sons. No Date (c.1900). George Routledge and Sons. London. No date, (c.1900). A Complete Set in 16 very beautiful leather bound volumes. Illustrated by a number of artists including George Cruikshank, Hablot K. Browne, John Gilbert and John Franklin. Very handsomely bound in half blue calf, decorated in gilt, contrasting lettering pieces, blue cloth boards. Top edge of pages gilt. Light wear to lower edges of boards, very light marks to cloth of some volumes. Endpapers browned and edges foxed. A stunning set, spines very bright and internally very clean.
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- Bookseller
- Addyman Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 96650
- Title
- THE WORKS: Complete in 16 Volumes. Auriol. Boscobel. Crichton. The Flitch of Bacon. Guy Fawkes. Jack Sheppard. The Lancashire Witches. Mervyn Clitheroe. The Miser's Daughter. Old Saint Pauls. Ovingdean Grange. Rookwood. The Spendthrift. The Star Chamber. The Tower of London. Windsor Castle.VERY HANDSOMELY BOUND IN HALF BLUE CALF DECORATED IN GILT WITH CONTRASTING LABELS.
- Author
- AINSWORTH, Harrison
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Date Published
- George Routledge and Sons. No Da
- Keywords
- FICTION leather sets harrison Ainsworth
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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Addyman Books
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About the Seller
Addyman Books
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Hay-on-Wye, Herefordshire
About Addyman Books
Addyman Books is based in Hay-on-Wye, the book capital of the world, with almost 30 bookshops in the town, nestled in the Black Mountains of Wales. We have been established since 1986 and have three shops, Addyman Books, Addyman Annexe and Murder & Mayhem. Large general stock. Murder & Mayhem specialises in Detective Fiction, True Crime and Horror.
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- Cloth
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- Gilt
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- Calf
- Calf or calf hide is a common form of leather binding. Calf binding is naturally a light brown but there are ways to treat the...
- Foxed
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