Description

Hardcover. 244 pages. First edition. Focusing mainly on Dickens’s relationships with his literary contemporaries and close family members, Nicoll was one of the first of the authors’ biographers to highlight the darker side of Dickens personality. Bookplate inside cover and private inscription on half-title. Bound in original dark blue cloth which shows several small spots on front board and foxing to bulked sheets on fore-edge. A square, sound and internally unmarked copy. A near very good copy of an uncommon title.