[THOMS, William J.] ‘Ambrose Merton’. The Old Story Books of England, Illustrated with Twelve Pictures by Eminent Artists. City of Westminster: for Joseph Cundall, [1845.] 12 wood-engraved plates printed in colour. (Toning, light spotting to plate margins.) Original red blind-stamped cloth, gilt lettering to spine, g.e. (rebacked, extremities bumped). – And a further twenty-three volumes, mainly decorative cloth (including ‘The Coronation Prayer Book’ published by Oxford University Press, 1911, 8vo, and Dudley Costello’s ‘A Tour Through the Valley of the Meuse’, 1846, 8vo) (24).