Windsor Castle: An Historical Romance

Original binding is half black cloth over drab boards with printed paper spine labels, edges uncut; a half title appears only in volume III. A significant illustration-based issue point: the 1843 three-volume Colburn edition contains only a Maclise-designed frontispiece and two further steel engravings by George Cruikshank, whereas a single-volume edition issued by Colburn the same year (in eleven monthly parts) carries the full illustration program by Tony Johannot, Cruikshank, and Delamotte -- so a three-volume set with only three plates is consistent with the true triple-decker first edition, not a defective copy