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hardcover. Condición: New. Michelle Ball Ilustrador. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

hardcover. Condición: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!

Hardcover. Condición: Good. George Cattermole. Ilustrador. 2nd Edition. 453 pages + 2 page publishers catalogue at rear. + 24 steele engraved vignette style plates and a full page frontispiece engraving all by George Cattermole. Original pale green blind stamped cloth, gilt titles on spine somewhat dull and cloth handled making the lime green also dull, a catch at outer edge has removed a small area of surface of the cloth, old sellotape repairs to front and rear free endpapers at gutters. All edges gilt. Private library stamp to inside front board "Earl of Ellenborough's Heirlooms Book No 1294" (shelf 36)? Contents very good and no loose plates or pages ALL plates accounted for. Collated. Full octavo. *We believe one of the stories in the book was written by William Harrison Ainsworth (Wrote Witches of Pendle & Boscobel and other period romances. Friend & contemporary of Charles Dickens) Perhaps he did others in the book but the actual contributors remain unknown? A series of tales told in the Haddon Hall surrounds & setting, some with ghosty and scary overtones. Romantic fiction.