Description

Hardcover, bound in original red cloth and possessing most of the original dust-jacket, with front and rear covers and both flaps extant [lacks spine panel]. 424 pages. Index. Illustrated with 31 of 33 plates [two portraits of Dickens 1859 & 1868 excised]. Front end-papers toned, presumably from old news article laid-in. An important study of the Dickens and his contemporaries by a leading authority on the subject. Still, an uncommon title in near very good condition, with faults as noted. Podeschi H 295