Sales catalogue 487: Maggs Bros

Date:
1927
Reference:
WA/HMM/CM/Sal/13/49
Catalogue details

Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Sales catalogue 487: Maggs Bros. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    18 19 20 21 22 23 Rookwood. Another Copy. With portrait of the Author after Maclise, and 12 full-page etchings by George Cruikshank. FIRST EDITION: Post 8vo, zz the original cloth, uncut (repaired). London, 1836. £9 10s The Spendthrift, a Tale. With 8 illustrations by Phiz. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, bound by Morrell, in full levant morocco gilt, UHC ieel Eee LON ON LOS fo £6 10s The Spendthrift. Another Copy. With 8 plates by Phiz. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, original cloth, uncut. London, 1857. £3 10s The Star-Chamber: An Historical Romance. FIRST EDITION. 2 vols., crown 8vo, o7zginal cloth. London, 1854. £2 2s The Star Chamber. Another Copy. Illustrated by Phiz. FIRST ILLUSTRATED EDITION. 8vo, bound by Morrell in full levant morocco gilt, uncut, t. e. g. London, 1857. £4 4s THE ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPT. ‘‘The Leaguer of Lathom.’’ The Original Autograph Manuscript of this Novel, which Ainsworth first entitled ‘‘ The Siege of Manchester.”’ Comprising some 400 pp., 4to, and dated 13th September, 1876. Bound in limp leather and lettered on side. £68 The complete manuscript (with the exception of a few leaves) of one of his famous historical novels, period of the Civil War, and descriptive of the siege of Manchester ; also the storming of Bolton, Lancaster, etc., but mainly dealing with the gallant defence of Lathom House, by Charlotte de la Tremouille, Countess of Derby—hence the present title of the story, ‘‘ The Leaguer of Lathom.”’