Published by the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth
Seven years of the King’s Theatre
London: William Harrison Ainsworth, Old Bond-Street, 1828. 8vo, pp. xxviii, 395, [1]; lithograph portrait frontispiece and 5 plates; contemporary (original?) blue-green paper-covered boards, tan paper shelfback, printed paper label on spine; spine darkened and scratched, boards lightly soiled and toned, upper hinge starting, lightly foxed, good or better. On the back pastedown is a binder's ticker: "F. Westley, / Binder, / Friar St. Shoemaker Row / near / Doctors Commons," an indication that this is not the first binding. That said, there's no apparent evidence of an earlier binding, and F. Wesley is known to have bout at least one other of Ainsworth's books. Ebers' account covers the full seven years of his career, from his jump into the business in 1820 to bankruptcy in 1827, after which he returned to his previous career as a bookseller. The book was published by the novelist William Harrison Ainsworth who in his early years waded into several publishing ventures, usually without much success. OCLC locates 13 titles published under his name 1827-29. The ads at the front list all 13, and include 4 titles "in the press," none of which appear in OCLC under his imprint, but one, ironically, shows up under Ebers'. Item #66667
Price: $500.00
