AINSWORTH, William Harrison. The Star-Chamber: an historical romance. (2nd edn.) G. Routledge & Co. 1857
Half title, front., plates by Phiz. Orig. pebble grained red cloth, spine blocked & lettered in gilt; a little dulled, later grey e.ps. Armorial bookplate of Thomas Dewhurst Lingard & his signature on half title. A good-plus copy.
¶Locke p.37; See Wolff 75 for two-volume first edition of 1854. The first illustrated edition and 'the edition that commands the biggest price and which is most difficult to obtain in a really fine state' . (Locke)
Stock #53856
£65
46, Great Russell Street - (opp. British Museum) - Bloomsbury, London WC1B 3PA
