The Tower of London
William Harrison Ainsworth
Leather Bound
(Richard Bentley, March 15, 1840)
First edition. Bound in half red leather & boards. Spine with gold stamped lettering & decorations, raised bands, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers. Illustrated by George Cruikshank. A VG copy, leather corners are rubbed and slightly rounded, spine leather with small rub marks along the seams. Inside has foxing through-out, heaviest on the frontis and the first two engravings. Hinges are tight, good sewing. Laid-in is a bill of sale for this copy from 1926, bought from Dobell Booksellers on Charing Cross Road for what appears to be 21 pounds.