Adventures of Oliver Twist, Oliver Twist, and Parish boy's progress
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Pasted in: Presentation inscription from George Cruikshank to Frederick Locker. Bookplate of Frederick Locker.
Publisher:
Published for the author by Bradbury & Evans,
Subject (Name):
Cruikshank, George,--1792-1878--Presentation inscription to F. Locker-Lampson, Dickens, Charles,--1812-1870--Bookplate, Locker-Lampson, Frederick,--1821-1895--Bookplate, and Locker-Lampson, Frederick,--1821-1895--Presentation
Adventures of Oliver Twist, Oliver Twist, and Parish boy's progress
Description:
Author's preface indicates this is "The third edition"; preface is dated April, 1841. Publisher's advertisements on lining papers include quotations from book reviews, latest one dated Nov. 10, 1855.
Publisher:
Published for the author by Bradbury & Evans,
Subject (Topic):
Chron.--1855, Etching--Specimens--1855, and Steel engraving--Specimens--1855
Manuscript, in a single hand, of a copy of Dickens' poem Bill of Fare, a parody of Oliver Goldsmith's Retaliation. Written for a private dinner party, the poem imagines a dinner party in which the guests are to be eaten; declares each guest to be a c...
Description:
Paper WM 1825.
Subject (Geographic):
Great Britain. and Great Britain
Subject (Name):
Dickens, Charles, 1812-1870., Goldsmith, Oliver, 1730?-1774., and Winter, Maria Sarah Beadnell, 1811 or 12-1886.
Subject (Topic):
Dinners and dining, English poetry, English wit and humor, Epitaphs, Parodies, English, Verse satire, English, and Social life and customs
Ms. note pasted in: Printed for private circulation but suppressed before a single copy was issued, and the whole edition (except two or three proofs) destroyed by special desire of the printers and of the museum authorities, [signed] Ed. Additional m...