The Tower of London: A Historical Romance (Everyman's Library#400) de Ainsworth, W.H. (William Harrison) - 1914

W. Foulsham & Co., 1111. Hardcover. Good. Abridged Edition. 224 pages. No dust jacket. Green cloth. Pages and binding are presentable with no major defects. Minor issues present such as mild cracking, inscriptions, inserts, light foxing, tanning and thumb marking. Overall a good condition item. Boards have mild shelf wear with light rubbing and corner bumping. Some light marking and sunning.

London: Cassell. 1908. Reprint. Hardcover. Very Good with no dust jacket; Edgewear. Spine weak. ; The People's Library; Vol. 32; 459 pages .

J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd, 1950. Hardcover. Good/Good. 1950. Last Reprinted. 455 pages. Dust jacket over red cloth with gilt lettering. Light tanning to pages and free endpapers. More prominent to text block edges. Binding is slightly loose but pages remain attached. Boards have minor corner bumping and edgewear with mild tanning and scuffing overall. Spine has light staining and tanning with soft crushing to ends. Lettering remains bright and clear. Book has a slight forward lean. Unclipped dust jacket with minor rubbing, chipping and tearing to edges. Moderate tanning and scuffing overall.

The Gresham Publishing Company; London., 1111. Presumed first printing thus. Undated. . Hard. Fair+. 16mo. 6 1/4. Portrait frontispiece.. Fair+. Lacking dust jacket. Publishers lightly faded cloth with gilt lettering and tooling to front and spine. Spine was very faded. A little darkened and white spotted. Edges and corners lightly rubbed. General wear and marking on covers. Mild page browned internally. Beautifully decorative art nouveau style endpapers. Top edge gilt. Uncut pages.184pp.

London: Everyman's Library (Dent/Dutton), 1950. Reprint. . Hardcover. Good/Fair. Red cloth boards with embossed decoration, gilt lettering to spine. Dust jacket has large closed tears and chips to edges, 1 inch tear to spine but has not detached. Slight foxing to dust jacket inside cover.

Milner and Company, Limited, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No edition remarks. 349 pages. No dust jacket. Pictorial cloth covered boards. Pages with some foxing and tanning, particularly to endpapers and textblock edges. Some cracking to gutters with exposed netting. Binding slightly loose. A previous owner's name to front free endpaper. Boards have moderate shelf wear with mild bumping and fraying to corners and crushing and fraying to spine ends. All surfaces heavily tanned, particularly spine. Gilt lettering to spine is dulled but remains brighter on front.

New York: D. Appleton & Company, 1903. Hardcover. Good/No Jacket. 12mo - over 6¾" - 7¾" tall. George Cruikshank. 478pp. Marroon cloth, paper spine label, top edges gilt, 40 plates and 58 woodcuts by Cruikshank. Spine darkened and missing a 2cm piece from top of spine, spine label worn but mostly legible, text foxed but most plates not affected, owner's name on front free endpaper.

Dent, 1946. Everyman's Library edition, with an Introduction by E Rhys. 455pp, red cloth covered boards, a little faded to the spine, with gilt title. Previous owner's name and address to the title page, otherwise internally clean. A historical novel set in Tudor times in the reign of Jane Grey and Mary Tudor.. Hard Cover. Very Good/No Jacket.

Robert Hayes, 1111. Hardcover. Good. No Edition Remarks. 390 pages. No dust jacket. Red cloth with gilt. Pages remain clear with minimal tanning and foxing, mild to end-papers and text-block edges. Some dog ears and creasing to edges. Cracking to hinges, no damage to end papers. Some occasional mild cracking to gutters throughout, binding remains reasonably firm. Boards have moderate edge-wear with bumping to corners and rubbing to surfaces. Moderate crushing to spine ends, with splitting, fraying and loss to the head, tail and joints. Book has a slight forward lean. Cloth has minor damp and dust stains. Sunning to spine. Gilt lettering is bright and clear.

London: Milner and Company Book. Very Good. Hardcover. 12mo - over 6¾ - 7¾" tall. 349pp. HARDCOVER. Not dated but circa 1900? Sgn. to ffep & browning. O/w clean internally. Attractive gilt lettering & design to burgundy cloth with the slightest or rubbing. Appears smart. Strong binding. Includes supply & fitting of new correctly sized protective lyfjacket. **A very smart early copy..