AINSWORTH, William Harrison

FIRST EDITION in one volume. By 1847 Fraser had moved away from 215 Regent Street, and the premises were taken over by one Nicholson, bookseller (Tallis, Street Views Suppl. 4), which dates the binding within these seven years. The volume includes the frontispiece portrait of the author and the 27 etchings on steel by George Cruikshank. The first edition appeared in 1839 as three consecutive volumes in Bentley s Miscellany. The present second edition was published in 15 numbers, of which most sets were apparently bound in one volume, like the present copy. Unbound sets are of great rarity.