'The Pride of Mankind': Puff Verses for Warren's Blacking. This item is unavailable.'The Pride of Mankind': Puff Verses for Warren's Blacking

with contributions attributed to Charles Dickens, edited with an introduction by John M L Drew, illustrated with engravings by Bob Guy, printed throughout in red and black, top edge red, original advertisement leaflet loosely inserted, mint in slip case; between March and August 1832 Dickens was working part-time as a parliamentary reporter for The True Sun . In his introduction Dr Drew explains his reasons for attributing these anonymous rhyming advertisements to the young newspaper reporter who later found fame as a great novelist; 43 pages including limitation.