1-273-654 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

William Harrison Ainsworth, author, 1881. Ainsworth (1805-1882) was a prolific writer of historical romantic fiction. His best-known works were 'Rookwood' (1834), which popularised the story of the highwayman Dick Turpin, and 'Windsor Castle' (1843), which concerns the legend of Herne the Hunter. From Men of Mark: a gallery of contemporary portraits of men distinguished in the Senate, the Church, in science, literature and art, the army, navy, law, medicine, etc. Photographed from life by Lock and Whitfield, with brief biographical notices by Thompson Cooper. (Conducted by G. C. Whitfield.) (London, 1876-1883).