Beschreibung:

DICKENS, Charles (1812-1870)--William R. HUGHES A Week's Tramp in Dickens-Land together with Personal Reminiscences of the 'Inimitable Boy' therein collected . London: Richard Clay & Sons, Limited, for Chapman & Hall, Limited, 1891. One volume in 2, 8° (220 x 135mm). 111 illustrations after F.G. Kitton and others, extra-illustrated with 106 additional illustrations, comprising: 83 views, 13 portraits, five scenes from Dickens' works, two drawings, two autograph letters, and one photograph. Contemporary green half morocco gilt by Sangorski & Sutcliffe, the spine gilt in six compartments, lettered in three compartments and dated at the foot, the other compartments decorated with fleurons and foliate and star tools, top edges gilt (spines slightly faded). Provenance . R. Baker (presentation inscription from William Ball . EXTRA-ILLUSTRATED WITH A LETTER FROM DICKENS AND A COMPREHENSIVE COLLECTION OF DICKENSIAN TOPOGRAPHICAL VIEWS. Bound in are autograph letters signed by Charles DICKENS to Messrs Bradbury & Evans, Broadstairs, 30 June 1847, asking for his copy of the Daily News to be redirected to him, and giving directions for the payment of his subscription to 'Poems by Harriet and Rose Acton', 1½ pages, 8vo , and by John FORSTER (Dickens' biographer), 1860, one page, 8vo , with a carte-de-visite photograph of Forster. The Dickens family were making their habitual summer stay in Broadstairs in 1847; Dickens himself was working on the middle sections of Dombey and Son during the day, and travelling up to London for theatrical rehearsals in the evenings. (2)