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First Edition. Presentation inscription on front free endpaper 'To Arthur Waugh, the Household, Gadshill, Biographical, and National publisher of Charles Dickens, from F.J. Harvey Arton, J.E.S. Sawyer'. Original green cloth backed textured boards, printed paper title-label on spine. Engraved armorial bookplate on upper pastedown. Clear, removable, archival protective cover fitted to the book. Octavo (215 x 143mm), pp. x, 145, [1 (blank)], [4 (publisher's catalogue of the 'Argonaut Travel Series')].Addendum slip tipped onto inner margin of p. [143]. Half-tone portrait frontispiece and 4 plates after George Cruikshank, all integral, A book in Very Good condition with offsetting onto free endpapers, slight fading on spine and peripherary of boards, spine label slightly rubbed and chipped, extremities lightly rubbed and bumped. Arthur Waugh (1866-1943), writer, critic and publisher, was the father of the novelists Alec and Evelyn Waugh. Carr, VanderPoel Dickens Collection,E137; Miller, The Dickens Student and Collector, p.64.