Description

Originally published in 1836, this edition is one of two reprints published in 1884 and may rightly be considered the second edition, though the issue of priority is questionable. This version, published in the Manchester Series of Fac-simile Re-prints of Rare and Valuable Works is somewhat scarcer than the Jarvis edition of the same year. Written by Dickens in opposition to the Sabbath bills, , the tract was to foreshadow his lifelong advocacy of the poorer classes, and launched the author as an outspoken opponent of the hated “Stiggins” fraternity, This copy is complete in the original grey wrappers, with 3 plates and 49 pages. Paper back-strip as largely worn away but pamphlet is otherwise quite clean and tightly bound. A good+ or better copy of a scarce piece of early Dickensiana. Podeschi b32/Eckel p.102.