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Published by London Collins Clear Type Press [no date. c 1925], 1935
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First T H Robinson illustrated edition of Sketches by Boz and first Arthur Dixon illustrated edition of The Uncommercial Traveller. Both published in the Collins Clear Type series. One of presumably a small number of copies specially bound for Simpson's Restaurant as a Christmas gift for 1935. This copy inscribed by Fred Heck, the manager of the restaurant, "To my dear friend H.E.S Lye with the heartiest of greetings for Christmas and the New Year 1936 from Fred Heck." Small 8vo., specially bound in full burgundy limp leather, lettered in gilt on spine, upper board lettered "With best Wishes for Christmas 1935 from the Manager of Simpson's Restaurant, Strand, which was patronised daily in 1859 by Charles Dickens". Dickens's name is produced as a facsimile signature. A little rubbing to one corner otherwise a near fine copy preserved in original card box (this a little worn).