Author: AINSWORTH, W. HARRISON
Title: Old Saint Paul's (Everyman's Library #522)
Description: London / New York: Everyman's Library - J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd. / E. P. Dutton & Co, Inc, 1947. Hardcover. A 1947 reprint of the 1911 issuance. An Everyman's Library edition of the 1841 novel by W. Harrison Ainsworth, described by Donald Armstrong Ross as a ".picture of seventeenth-century London ravaged by plague and fire.with strikingly portrayed historical background and a romantic love story." With an introduction by W. E. A. Axon. Entry 522 in Everyman's Library Fiction series. --- In EL binding style 3 with full carmine cloth-covered boards and gilt-stamped spine titling; blindstamped Eric Ravilious-designed 'shell' to cover and brown topstain. In red dust jacket with Ravilious 'knot' to front panel. --- The front free endpaper has been torn out, and with dark soiling along top edge of front cover, else a clean, tightly-bound copy. Rather brittle jacket with a large open tear to front panel, other small tears and chips and moderately darkened spine, otherwise intact and wrapped in removable archival mylar protector.; 16mo - 6 to 7 in. tall; xvi, 476, 4 pages. Good in Fair dust jacket .

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