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Author Name: Ainsworth, W. [William] Harrison
Title: The South-Sea Bubble A Tale of the Year 1720 (1871)
Binding: Hard Cover
Edition: First Edition?
Size: >
Publisher: John Dicks 1871
Illustrator: Edward Henry Courbauld
Seller ID: 58004
Undated c1871- 72. Bound with: ROSS, M.: After Many Years A Domestic Story. John Dicks, nd. Illustrated. Bound with: WINSTANLEY, E.: What Is To Be, Will Be. John Dicks, nd. Illustrated. Bound with: PALMER, The Rev. H. V: The Younger Son. John Dicks, nd. Illustrated. Four paperbacks bound together (without original wrappers) in late C19th purple leather over brown marbled boards. Text block is tight and clean, but binding is in only a fair/poor state: leather split along hinges, paper chipped on front board, small chips to spine tips. With all faults. The South Sea Bubble is the most ephemeral and therefore probably scarcest of all Ainsworth's novels:. It was issued only as paperbacks by Dicks in England and by Tauchnitz in Germany: there was no hardback edition, no three-decker, no American edition. The British Library records three Dicks copies dating 1871, c1880 & c1902. This copy, with an advertisement for Dicks' British Drama in 12 volumes (1864 - 1872) , as being "now ready", suggests that this copy dates to around 1871-2, but it is impossible to be absolutely certain. The other 3 novels are very obscure: I have not been able to trace their dates of publication. NB: the subtitle to The South-Sea Bubble -- A Tale of the Year 1720, only appears at the head of the first page of text, and not on the title or half-title pages.
Price =
225.00 GBP
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