first edition
1846
by Dickens, Charles
1846. With Vignette Illustrations on Wood by Samuel Palmer. London: Published for the Author by Bradbury & Evans, 1846. 2 pp undated preliminary ads plus 2 pp undated ads. Original horizontally-ribbed blue cloth.
First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men... His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line [CGEL]. Smith cites blue bindings both of fine-diaper cloth and of horizontally-ribbed cloth (no priority -- see his Note 3); this is a third possibility we have seen before, vertically-ribbed cloth. Condition is bright and near-fine -- there is essentially no wear other than the usual bumped fore-corners (as the boards are quite thin), the original endpapers are present and intact, and there is no foxing on the leaves within. The front paste-down bears a woman's signature dated 1847. Smith II pp 44-58. (Inventory #: 15671)
First Edition of Dickens's account of his 1844 tour of Italy. His description of the coaching trips which took him from place to place for five months is full of wonderful observations of his fellow-men... His account of a public execution in Rome is remarkable -- his emotional reaction is held firmly in control but revulsion at the whole proceeding is implicit in every line [CGEL]. Smith cites blue bindings both of fine-diaper cloth and of horizontally-ribbed cloth (no priority -- see his Note 3); this is a third possibility we have seen before, vertically-ribbed cloth. Condition is bright and near-fine -- there is essentially no wear other than the usual bumped fore-corners (as the boards are quite thin), the original endpapers are present and intact, and there is no foxing on the leaves within. The front paste-down bears a woman's signature dated 1847. Smith II pp 44-58. (Inventory #: 15671)
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