CHARLES DICKENS. Samuel Palmer: Pictures from Italy. With woodcuts by Samuel Palmer

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CHARLES DICKENS. Samuel Palmer : Pictures from Italy. With woodcuts by Samuel Palmer

Published for the author by Bradbury & Evans, Whitefriars, 1846

First edition. 8vo. [ii], 270pp + [ii] publisher's advertisements. Original blue cloth lettered in gold at the spine with ornate blind-stamped decorated borders to the upper and lower boards. With a title page decoration and four wood cuts by Samuel Palmer, which were omitted from all subsequent editions. Pre-title page advertisements for 'Oliver Twist' and 'A New English Story', and final advertisements for 'The Chimes' (twelfth edition), 'A Christmas Carol' (tenth edition) and 'The Cricket on the Hearth' (twentieth edition), plus eight further titles. Spine ends and corner tips a little bruised with some quite light marking to the cloth and an inch-long partial-tear to the cloth at the overhanging fore edge of the upper board. A small area of light miscellaneous soiling to the head of one text leaf. Former owner name and date pencilled to the head of the front free endpaper, "Kay Gittings 1947", i.e. Katherine Edith Gittings, née Campbell, the first wife of writer Robert Gittings. Dearer inkstamp to the base of the front free endpaper. A very good copy. A travelogue of Italy, where Dickens toured for some months with his family in 1844. Elements of this book were first published in 'The Daily News' under the title 'Travelling Sketches - Written on the Road'; the remainder was composed specially for this bookform edition.. Book. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover

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