Hard times ; Hunted down ; Holiday romance ; and, George Silverman's explanation / by Charles Dickens ; with introduction by Andrew Lang ; in one volume ; with seven illustrations.
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
Category
Books
Date
1898
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3259170
Summary
Bibliographic description
Gadshill edition. xix, [5], 444 p., [7] leaves of plates : ill. ; 21 cm. Uniformly bound and shelved with other vols. of Gadshill edition of the works of Charles Dickens (London and New York, 1897-1899). Plate listed as at p. 94 has been bound as frontispiece. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Late nineteenth-century half red morocco, red cloth over boards; five raised bands; gilt tooled spine; spine lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Dickens / Vol. 25' and 'Hard times etc.'; gilt top edge; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso: 'Bound by Riviere & Son'
Makers and roles
Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870), author Walter Andrew Lang (1844-1912), editor