Life of Charles Dickens
1870, First Edition. Philadelphia : T.B. Peterson & Brothers. Good copy only in the original gilt-blocked cloth boards, now somewhat dust-dulled and sun-toned along the spine and upper margins. Endbands rubbed. Front free endpaper lacking, with twine hinge stitches holding. Text edges, preliminary and final leaves foxed, with the interior remaining strong and clean. A very serviceable copy overall. Item #464976
Physical description; [2], 17-484 : frontispiece portrait ; 19 cm. Notes; Preface date. Uncollected pieces (pages 341-479): Thomas Griffiths Wainewright (Janus Weathercock) the poisoner. -- Aboard ship. -- A small star in the east. -- A little dinner in an hour. -- Mr. Barlow. -- On an amateur beat. -- A fly-leaf in a life. -- A plea for total abstinence. -- Full report of the first [and second] meeting of the Mudfog Association ... -- Thackeray. In memoriam. "Will of Charles Dickens": pages 479-484. "The Dickens controversy": 6 pages at end. Subjects; Dickens, Charles. Biography. Novelists, English. 19th century. Victorian literature. Boz. Uncollected papers. Forster. Thackeray.
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