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Dickens, Charles; Smith, F. Hopkinson : In Dickens's London

Charles Scribner's Sons, New York, 1914

Original publisher's gray boards backed with white cloth. Gilt lettering on spine. Green text and illustration of a wreath on the front cover. 7 1/2" x 10 1/2." 127 pages, complete. Twenty-seven black and white plates, complete. Most of the plates feature reprinted charcoal drawings by F. Hopkinson Smith. Pages and covers are very clean and intact. Very light smudge on front cover. Binding is tight. A fine copy. Excerpt from the Introduction: "An apology for adding another page to the overwhelming mass of printed matter laudatory of the genius of Charles Dickens is perhaps necessary. Mine is personal. For a long time I have wished to discharge something of the obligation I have always owed him for the pleasure he has given me. And since in my searches about London I found how little is left of what was made famous by his pen, another wish has grown--that of recording, before it is too late, the aspect of some of the few remaining inns, bridges, streets, courts, and houses in which he and his characters played their parts. That their demolition is going steadily on was made apparent to me in the summer of 1912, when I was engaged in a hunt for similar relics identified with the pen of Mr. Thackeray. ... And so I tender to you, my readers, in all humility not another book about Mr. Dickens with illustrations by the author, but a book of illustrations with some explanatory extracts from the Master's text, padded with some experiences of my own.". Illustr.: Smith, F. Hopkinson. Book. Book Condition: Fine. Binding: Hardcover

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