OLD SAINT PAUL'S. A Tale of the Plague and the Pit. By William Harrison Ainsworth. With Illustrations by John Franklin and H. K. Browne. Author's Copyright Edition.
Published by The Waverley Book Company, Ltd. 7-8 Old Bailey, E.C. [1898], London, 1898
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8vo. 9 x 6 inches. [vi] + 426 pp. Bound in green cloth with gilt decorate spine. Rough cut edges. Flyleaves browned and page edges foxed and sometimes touching on margins; otherwise a very good copy. Illustrated by 22 engraved plates, including frontispiece and vignette title. A work of fiction on the Plague and Great Fire of London, by William Harrison Ainsworth (1805-1882), romantic novelist. This edition is illustrated by Hablot Knight Browne (Phiz) (1815-820 (the frontispiece and vignette title) and by John Franklin (fl.1800-61) (the twenty text plates) (The Victorian Web website). The edition appears to be one of a set of Ainsworth's novels published in 1898 by the Waverley Book Company. The first edition was published in 1841 in three volumes. FICTION NOVELS LIT. FICTION LONDON 19TH CENTURY ILLUSTRATED FICTION.
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Bibliographic details
- Title
- OLD SAINT PAUL'S. A Tale of the Plague and the Pit. By William Harrison Ainsworth. With Illustrations by John Franklin and H. K. Browne. Author's Copyright Edition.
- Author
- AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON. BROWNE, HABLOT KNIGHT [PHIZ] AND FRANKLIN, JOHN, illustrated by.
- Publisher
- The Waverley Book Company, Ltd. 7-8 Old Bailey, E.C. [1898], London
- Publication year
- 1898
Marrins Bookshop
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Founded by Patrick Marrin's father George in 1946, Marrin's Bookshop has been based in its current Folkestone location since 1963. Patrick has worked in bookselling since 1970. As well as rare antiquarian books, maps and prints, the stock includes a wide range of literature, library sets, travel, history and illustrated books in all fields. We also offer a bookbinding and restoration service. Visitors to the shop are welcome and we exhibit at UK book fairs. A large proportion of our stock can be searched on this website, or at http://www.marrinbook.co.uk.…
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