From Buddenbrooks, Inc., Newburyport, MA, U.S.A.
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3 volumes. First edition, first issue with "Christmas 1851" on dedication page. Illustrated with engraved frontispieces and half-title in each volume as called for. 8vo, publisher s original reddish-brown cloth lettered and decorated in gilt on the spines and with the gilt pictorial devices surrounded by elaborate blind stamped borders on the upper covers, lower covers stamped elaborately in blind, marbled endleaves and edges. Housed in a foldover protective case. [ix], 210; [vi], 214; [vi], 321. An unusually pleasing and fine set, especially well preserved in the original bindings, rare thus, some light abrasion to the upper spine panel of the first volume. RARE FIRST EDITION, FIRST ISSUE IN THE PUBLISHER'S ORIGINAL REDDISH-BROWN CLOTH, GILT DECORATED AND IN UNUSUALLY PLEASING CONDITION. From the Roman conquest to the reign of William and Mary, 1688. The germ of this book was in the mind of Dickens nearly ten years before the idea was perfected. In 1843 he wrote to Douglas Jerrold concerning it but no immediate result followed. In style, subject and composition it was different from anything he had attempted. . Seller Inventory # 33491
Bibliographic Details
Title: A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Publisher: London Bradbury and Evans 1852, '53, '54
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st Edition
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