Author: William Harrison Ainsworth
Title: The Works of William Harrison Ainsworth
Description: London, George Routledge & Sons, c1880-1897. Leather. A smartly bound set of sixteen volumes from English historical novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, illustrated throughout. Complete in sixteen volumes. The collected works of William Harrison Ainsworth, an English historical novelist. His first success as a writer came with Rookwood in 1834, and a stream of thirty-nine novels followed, the last of which appeared in 1881. This collection contains: Rookwood: A Romance. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, and eighteen plates. Crichton. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title, and sixteen plates. Jack Sheppard: A Romance. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-four plates. The Tower of London: A Historical Romance. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, and fifty-six wood engravings. Guy Fawkes or The Gunpowder Treason: An Historical Romance. Illustrated with a frontispiece and twenty-one plates. Old Saint Paul's: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire. Illustrated with a frontispiece, title vignette, and twenty plates. The Miser's Daughter: A Tale. Illustrated with a frontispiece and nineteen plates. Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance. Illustrated with a frontispiece, eighteen plates, and eighty-seven wood engravings. The Lancashire Witches: A Romance of Pendle Forest. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. Auriol or The Elixir of Life. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fourteen plates. The Flitch of Bacon or the Custom of Dunmow: A Tale of English Home. Illustrated with a frontispiece and eleven plates. The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. The Spendthrift: A Tale. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Mervyn Clitheroe. Illustrated with a frontispiece, vignette title, and twenty-two plates. Ovingdean Grange: A Tale of the South Downs. Illustrated with a frontispiece and seven plates. Boscobel or The Royal Oak: A Tale of the Year 1651. Illustrated with a frontispiece and fifteen plates. Collated complete. Illustrated by George Cruikshank or Cruickshank, a British caricaturist and book illustrator, praised as the "modern Hogarth" during his life; Sir John Gilbert, an English artist, illustrator and engraver; John Franklin, a British painter, draughtsman, illustrator, and engraver; Hablot Knight Browne, a British artist and illustrator known by his pen name, Phiz; Antoine Johannot, known commonly as Tony Johannot, a French engraver, illustrator and painter. Bound by Riviere & Son. Dated from the British Library. Bound in half calf with marbled boards by Riviere. Externally, very smart with minor rubbing to the extremities and light fading to the spines. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean with the odd small spot to the endpapers and foredge. Age toning to the pages of The Lancashire Witches due to paper type. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: George Cruikshank; Sir John Gilbert; John Franklin; Hablot Knight Browne; Antoine Johannot. Very Good Indeed .

Keywords: Works Ainsworth Cruikshank Gilbert Ainsworth Windsor Castle Boscobel George Cruikshank; Sir John Gilbert; John Franklin; Hablot Knight Browne; Antoine Johannot


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