first edition Hardcover
1849 · London
by DANSEY, JAS. CRUIKSHANK
London: Dickinson and Company, 1849. Bevelled edges. Covers with gilt fillets and gilt tooling. Panelled spine is darkened, lettered in gilt. Marbled endpapers. Evidence of book-plate removal. Old water-stain mid fore-edge. Title-page is not dated but has "Part 1." below author. The sesond printing had 1850 at bottom of the page. There was never a Part 2. We compared this copy with the 1849 edition on Internet Archive. Ours is missing 4 of the 5 large chromolithographic plates in the " First Crusade", collates complete in the "Second Crusade", and misswing one plate in the "Third Crusade". The plates are vivid, some foxing and peripheral toning. Priced as an incomplete volume, See photos. Allibone 475.. First Edition. Full Crimson Morocco. Moderate Cover Wear/No Dust Jacket. Quarto.
(Inventory #: 015823)