Item Detail
-
Glover
-
2065
-
(Anon.)
-
Life of Jack Sheppard, the Housebreaker
-
2 volumes in one, 8vo
-
half green morocco
-
Riviere
-
London
-
1840-39
-
First editions (?)
-
[4], 80 p., [20] leaves of plates
-
25 cm.
-
823 B5795L 1840
-
With 20 lithographs. Turpin's Ride to York. With engraved title and 6 lithographs. The Sheppard item is probably pinched from Ainsworth's novel about the same character, published a year earlier. The value of these two lurid narratives lies in the spirited if crude lithographs. Fine copies.