Phiz and Dickens as they appeared to Edgar Browne.
by DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Edgar
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Nisbet, London., 1913. First edition. Quarto. pp xiv, 320. Frontispiece portrait photogravure of Hablot K. Browne and 36 plates after his drawings. One plate after Leech. A letter from Dickens is reproduced in facsimile. Original cream buckram decorated in gilt with green onlays, top edge gilt. A memoir by the son of ''Phiz''.One of 175 copies numbered and signed by the author.A bit of light foxing to prelims. Bottom corners of covers slightly bumped. Near fine in the scarce dustwrapper which is very good, slightly chipped with a couple of short closed tears and a scratch to the rear panel.
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- Peter Ellis bookseller
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- DICKENSC003613
- Title
- Phiz and Dickens as they appeared to Edgar Browne.
- Author
- DICKENS, Charles. BROWNE, Edgar
- Book Condition
- Used
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Nisbet, London.
- Date Published
- 1913
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- Plate
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