[Rarebooks] AN AMERICAN BRITISH RARITY: AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON: PICTORIAL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF GUY FAWKES.

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AINSWORTH, WILLIAM HARRISON:  PICTORIAL LIFE AND ADVENTURES OF GUY 
FAWKES. THE CHIEF OF THE GUN POWDER TREASON... ILLUSTRATIONS BY G. 
CRUIKSHANK.: Philadelphia, T.B. Peterson & Bros., [184-?]: 1 p. l., 
vii-viii, 9-212 pp. 8vo. illustr. By full page wood engravings after 
Cruikshank, in the text. d. It is part of the series, Peterson's 
Military Novels. OCLC finds 1 copy at NYPL. Not at AAS, Hollis, YUS, 
Melvyl, LC, Mirlyn, IU, NW; OhSt.; PA. ST; Purdue; U. of Chic; IU 
Chic; IU Ch.Urb.; Iowa; Minn. U.; UWis; Wayne St.; Newberry. The 
American edition of this Ainsworth novel seems to be rare. It may be 
the scarcest printing of any of his novels, which were popular 
successes in England in his time. Original multicolor covers 
with  wood engraving after Cruikshank; the central form,  have 
chipped, but still attached. Small water stain in the margin Ow VG, 
tight, clean copy. $450.00

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