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AINSWORTH, William Harrison. Preston Fight; or, the Insurrection of 1715. A Tale … London: Tinsley Brothers … 1875.

3 vols., 8vo.; first and last pages in each volume browned by offsetting from the binding, but a very good copy in the original green cloth, blocked in black, spine gilt, slightly rubbed; from the library of Ainsworth’s granddaughter, though without marks of provenance.

First edition of a late ‘Lancashire’ novel. The hero is the gallant Jacobite military leader the Earl of Derwentwater who raised forces for James III in his native Northumberland, was taken prisoner at the surrender of Preston, and was executed at Tower Hill.

Ainsworth’s decline in popularity in his later years has rendered his later novels, published by Tinsley in smaller editions than his early work, increasingly scarce.

Locke p. 58; Wolff 66; not in Sadleir.

£950

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