Barnaby Rudge, and The Mystery of Edwin Drood: Part of Dicken's Complete Works

Boston: Aldine Book Publishing, 1888. Later printing. Half Leather. Fair. 12mo. [2], pages 21-720, [1], pages 23-306, [2]. Illustrations. Marbled paper covered boards with leather corners and spine. Gilt decorated spine with leather title labels. Marbled end papers and text edges. Light shelf wear and rubs to the binding. Front hinge cracked. Text is browned and fragile with some light edge chips to the early pages. A previous owner inscription in pencil on the right front flyleaf - "Harry ??? Christmas 1888". Later inscription written above - "Ex libris Eugene M. Mitchell Given me by my dear son Stephens Mitchell June 17th 1928 ("Fathers Day")". A fair copy. Provenance from the estate of the Mitchell family in Atlanta, Georgia.

Eugene Muse Mitchell (1866-1944) was born in Atlanta in 1866 to Russell Crawford Mitchell and Deborah Margaret Sweet. He graduated from the University of Georgia law school in 1886. He was an Atlanta attorney, co-founder of the Atlanta Historical Society, and father of Stephens Mitchell and Margaret Mitchell author of Gone With the Wind. His wife was Mary Isabel "Maybelle" Stephens.

Stephens Mitchell (1896-1983) was the son of Eugene Muse Mitchell and Isabel "Maybelle" (Stephens) Mitchell. He was born 1896 in Atlanta. His sister was Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone With the Wind. Stephens Mitchell attended the University of Georgia and was a prominent Atlanta attorney, historian, and devout Catholic. He also edited the Atlanta Historical Bulletin. After John Marsh, husband of Margaret, died in 1952 Stephens became the executor of Margaret Mitchell's estate. Stephens Mitchell died in 1983 and the estate was passed on to his two sons Eugene Muse Mitchell II and Joseph Reynolds Mitchell.