The Life and Times of Dick Whittington: An Historical Romance
London: Hugh Cunningham; Simpkin, Marshall and Co., 1841. First edition. Hardcover. Octavo. viii, 342pp., 18 (of 22) plates, including frontispiece. Rebound in modern three-quarter blue leather over marbled boards with gilt ruling on covers, gilt lettering on spine; raised bands. Gilt top edge. Decorative endpapers. Frontispiece engraving. With eighteen of twenty-two plates, several by T. H. Jones, including his address. "The commercial pursuits that have raised London to the chief place among the cities of the world, and the peculiar qualities that render it the most eligible seat for the government of a mighty empire,..." (preface). Light wear along edges of binding, small chips. Lightly starting at inside front cover. Light age-toning of block. good to good+. Item #47845
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