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Guy Fawkes. With illustrations by George Cruikshank. Bentley's Miscellany.
DELUXE BINDING WITH AINSWORTH'S GUY FAWKES
London: Richard Bentley, 1840-41.
8vo (9½" tall). Superb full red crushed morocco, by
TOUT. Gilt raised bands and pallets, fine gilt tooling
to panels. Boards framed with gilt floral corner
tool. Gilt doublures with floral patterned endpapers.
Top edge gilt. Slightly foxed. Armorial bookplate.
Original issues of Bentley's Magazine, bound with
special title page, contents and a preface dated 1889
by the collector John Waugh.
A spectacular binding by TOUT of Ainsworth's classic
title. Ainsworth was in fact editor of Bentley's
Miscellany from 1840-42, the period in which Guy
Fawkes was serialised by the periodical, and he later
owned the title too. Uniformly bound with our other
selections from Bentley's Miscellany.
£495.00
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