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A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

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A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND

by Dickens Charles

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  • Hardcover
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London: Bradbury and Evans, 1852, '53, '54. 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.’

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Bookseller
Buddenbrooks, Inc. US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
33491
Title
A CHILD'S HISTORY OF ENGLAND
Author
Dickens Charles
Book Condition
Used
Binding
Hardcover
Publisher
Bradbury and Evans
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1852, '53, '54
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May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.

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Buddenbrooks, Inc.

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Fine
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