F4: Revisions in a fragment of proof for "Doctor's Commons," in Sketches by Boz, Second Series

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Title: F4: Revisions in a fragment of proof for "Doctor's Commons," in Sketches by Boz, Second Series
Creator: From the Collection: Gimbel, Richard
Contributor: From the Collection: Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870
From the Collection: Cruikshank, George, 1792-1878
Published / Created: circa 1837
Description: Revisions in a fragment of proof for "Doctor's Commons," in Sketches by Boz, Second Series: "His clothes were nearly threadbare, but it was easy to see that he wore them so, from choice, and not from necessity; all his looks and gestures down to the very small pinches of snuff which he every now and then took from a little tin canister, told of wealth, and penury, and avarice." Autograph manuscript on page-proof of 1/3 leaf, on 1 page, quoted in full. The printed text covers both sides of this small piece of proof. Published originally in the first edition of Sketches by Boz, Second Series (London: John Macrone, 1837), on pages, 188-189.
Provenance: Gift of Richard Gimbel, circa 1920-1969.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: English
French
Italian

Repository

Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library

Call Number

GEN MSS 1998

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Container / Volume

Box 2, folder 6

Access: Public
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Citation: Manuscripts in the Richard Gimbel Collection of Charles Dickens. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.