Description

Hardcover, original blue cloth. 284 pages. With 28 illustrations by Fred Barnard. First edition. A full length monograph by the editor of “the Dickensian” on villains who populate Dickens’s fiction. From the Artful Dodger to the calculating murderer, Jonas Chuzzlewit, Mr. Dexter presents the cheaters, forgers, hypocrites, thieves, and fawners who figure so prominently in the art of the ‘inimitable.’ Former owner’s neat signature on front free end-paper, dated 1927. Else a clean, square, unmarked copy. Very good, no dust-jacket.