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The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Eight Illustrations.
Dickens, Charles · London
- Author
- Dickens, Charles
- Date
- c1900
- Place
- London
- Publisher
- Chapman & Hall
- Language
- English
- Binding
- 12mo.(4.75" x 6.75") x + 515 pp. Lacking frontispiece. Full green leather with fancy corner gilt rule framing a large gilt diamond shaped filigree device to both boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, heavy gilt fancy frames to all others. inor edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Green leather bookplate to front pastedown. Front gutter starting towards foot, first free endpaper with chip and small closed tear to fore-edge, lacking frontispiece, 3 -line inscription neatly in pencil to reverse of first free endpaper. Dampstaining to margins of last 20 pages or so with evidence of water damamge to lower corner of rear board (see pic). Still, a very attractive binding on this book.
- Category
- Fore-Edge Paintings
- Record
- S.I.8496
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. With Eight Illustrations. c1900. London: Chapman & Hall.
12mo.(4.75" x 6.75") x + 515 pp. Lacking frontispiece. Full green leather with fancy corner gilt rule framing a large gilt diamond-shaped filigree device on both boards. Spine with four gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title to second compartment, heavy gilt fancy frames to all others. Minor edgewear, corners bumped and rubbed. Green leather bookplate to front pastedown. Front gutter starting towards foot, first free endpaper with chip and small closed tear to fore-edge, lacking frontispiece, 3-line inscription neatly in pencil to reverse of first free endpaper. Dampstaining to margins of last 20 pages or so with evidence of water damage to the lower corner of the rear board (see pic). Still, a very attractive binding on this book.
Charles John Huffam Dickens ( 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English novelist, journalist, short story writer, and social critic. He created some of literature's best-known fictional characters, and is regarded by many as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era.
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