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PICTURES FROM ITALY by Dickens, Charles - 1846

by Dickens, Charles

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PICTURES FROM ITALY by Dickens, Charles - 1846

PICTURES FROM ITALY

by Dickens, Charles

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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 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 bindings both of fine-diaper cloth and of horizontally-ribbed cloth (no priority -- see his Note 3); there are also copies in vertically-ribbed cloth. This copy is in horizontally-ribbed cloth, and is in near-fine condition (volume slightly aslant, front endpaper slightly cracked, one small front-cover spot). PICTURES FROM ITALY used to be rather common, but attractive copies such as this are becoming increasingly scarce. Smith II pp 44-58.
  • Bookseller Sumner & Stillman US (US)
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  • Date Published 1846
  • Keywords Travel; Italy

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by Charles Dickens; Samuel Palmer [illus.]

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London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. Very Good. London: Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846. First Edition, matching all first edition issue points listed in Smith, Eckel, and Podeschi. Octavo. 269 [3]. Includes 2 pp. advertisements and half title preliminaries; four black and white illustrations by Palmer; advertisements to rear with twelfth, tenth, and twentieth editions of Dickens' Christmas books; seven titles plus Portrait listed on final advertisements page. Bound in blue fine-diaper cloth; front and rear stamped in blind; gilt lettering to spine; yellow-white endpapers. Recased with original spine laid down; loss to original spine at extremities. Scuffs and smudges to boards with patchy discoloration; slightly heavier soiling to rear; gilt lettering rubbed; brief exposure to edges. Binding sound. Previous owner's armorial bookplate (Burton) to front pastedown. Mild wrinkling to pages; brief marginal chipping in spots; pages else toned but unmarked. Still a Very Good copy. [Smith… Read More
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