NMLP P-034726 · Book-club / reprint tell · minted 2026-07-09

Rookwood: A Romance

William Harrison Ainsworth · Richard Bentley (London) · 1834

The celebrated program of Cruikshank copper-plate illustrations was not part of the 1834 first edition; it was first added in the fourth edition, issued in one volume by William Macrone and Richard Bentley in 1836. A copy carrying a full run of Cruikshank plates, or lacking the Maclise/Finden portrait frontispiece, is therefore a later printing rather than the true 1834 first.

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New Mexico Literacy Project — Book-club / reprint tell NMLP P-034726 for "Rookwood: A Romance" by William Harrison Ainsworth (https://newmexicoliteracyproject.org/id/point/p-034726, CC BY 4.0, dataset DOI 10.5281/zenodo.21184548).